Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-30 Thread Steven White
MF-W: I guess I was logged out when I first looked at it. It is, indeed, only semiprotected. (rueful grin) Jon Harald: Please look at my draft at https://no.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinytt:Forside/soft. I wrote it in English, then machine translated it (on Google) to get the Norwegian. But I'd app

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-29 Thread MF-Warburg
Afacis the main page is only semiprotected? 2017-11-28 22:37 GMT+01:00 Steven White : > The PCP to close Norwegian Wikinews has been closed as technically > rejected: Wiki to stay open, but to be soft-closed, per the recent > discussion. Help to create that soft-close page (Jon Harald?) and/or m

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-28 Thread Steven White
The PCP to close Norwegian Wikinews has been closed as technically rejected: Wiki to stay open, but to be soft-closed, per the recent discussion. Help to create that soft-close page (Jon Harald?) and/or move it into place given full protection of the current main page (MF-Warburg?) would be app

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-24 Thread Steven White
If we go to the soft close, then someone (I guess Jon Harald) should copy over the current front page of Swedish Wikinews and turn it into Norwegian. Then a steward or GS (MF-W?) will have to put it in place, because it's a fully protected page. Steven Sent from my iPad __

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-23 Thread Oliver Stegen
"Soft closes" seem particularly suited to Wikinews where old data with long activity gaps is much more embarrassing than in other WMF projects. +1 On 23-Nov-17 17:29, MF-Warburg wrote: Yes, this makes sense. If the main concern are old articles on the main page, clean the main page. 2017-11

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-23 Thread MF-Warburg
Yes, this makes sense. If the main concern are old articles on the main page, clean the main page. 2017-11-23 17:23 GMT+01:00 Jon Harald Søby : > Sounds like an OK compromise to me. > > 2017-11-23 17:09 GMT+01:00 Steven White : > >> The compromise position on Norwegian Wikinews would be the "soft

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-23 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Sounds like an OK compromise to me. 2017-11-23 17:09 GMT+01:00 Steven White : > The compromise position on Norwegian Wikinews would be the "soft close" > that several people in the discussion have suggested. There's a link from > there to show how Swedish Wikinews did it. This way, the current,

[Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-23 Thread Steven White
The compromise position on Norwegian Wikinews would be the "soft close" that several people in the discussion have suggested. There's a link from there to show how Swedish Wikinews did it. This way, the current, arguably embarrassing, content would be out of sight. At the same time, the infrast

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-23 Thread Jon Harald Søby
(I am obviously biased on the Norwegian Wikinews, but I'll share my opinions, but this shouldn't count as a vote.) The top news story on the Norwegian Wikinews is that Erna Solberg was elected prime minister. The news story is four years old (and even at the time was a one-off in a slate of inacti

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-21 Thread MF-Warburg
I think both proposals should be rejected. Norwegian Wikinews in particular as it has way too many pages. If a "rebirth" happens in Incubator, it could just as well or even better happen on the subdomain. I don't want a pointless painful page-moving like nl.wikinews again. 2017-11-20 16:14 GMT+01:

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-20 Thread Steven White
Concerning Bosnian Wikibooks: That's fine. Assuming no further comments by tomorrow (one week after I brought it back up to the committee), I will close that one as unsuccessful (that is, project remains open). That said, Milos, I would encourage you to look through the small number of mainspa

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-17 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Steven White wrote: > Bosnian project was a Wikibooks, not a Wikinews. Sorry, I was thinking about Wikinews (and they also have inactive Wikinews). The same applies + Wikibooks is more important project than Wikinews.

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-17 Thread Steven White
Bosnian project was a Wikibooks, not a Wikinews. Steven Sent from Outlook ___ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom

Re: [Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-17 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Steven White wrote: > Bosnian (Bosnanski) Wikibooks > > Since the creation of this request in January 2015, about 20 users have > commented. In general, the arguments SUPPORTING state that there are only > 37 (or so) mainspace pages in the wiki, that almost none

[Langcom] Looking to close two long-open requests for project closures

2017-11-14 Thread Steven White
Hello, all: There are two requests at "Proposals for Closing Projects" that have been lingering for a long while without action here. I am wondering whether or not we can work to close these two requests. Bosnian (Bosnanski) Wikibooks