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So in fact I have to write a paper on this -- which I must not allow to turn into a book. I put some of the stuff together when I was invited to It:Wikicon at Como, two years ago, of course the Italian Wikipedians get the point anyway, and I could point to the default screen display behind speakers' heads which showed that the EU, and our university host as well, had adopted a Latin name for the multilingual region we were in (Insubria). But in my personal perspective, I still have to write the paper and get it published. Then I can extend [[:en:Latin language]]: then I feel I could really prove, whenever necessary, that Latin is not (in meta's dismissive terms) simply an ancient language but also a special language. Then Vicipaedia is safe to go on bringing together and supporting all those special Latin-using communities that began to split up by about 1700 and have largely not yet learned what a new encyclopaedia can do for them. ... OK, never mind, I think we are safe really. [[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew Dalby]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby|disputatio]]) 09:11, 10 Septembris 2021 (UTC)
:I would be very interested to read that when you publish :) I agree about the classifications you make. Re: Anncient Greek, there is a parallel piece of work to be done to show that it is functional and productive; these seem to be the main requirements that will be insisted on, probably rightly.
:On the Committee, they do seem wedded to their position, but the fact that it isn't documented or justified seems very problematic to me. Really, they need that all in place to meet their transparency requirements, so I think they are in a kind of policy limbo, but haven't quite realised that yet. It's a good reason to revisit the question in itself, since they lack the consultation and documentation for the decision they made.
:Ultimately, they are accountable to the WM Board, so I think the right thing to do is to show with evidence that these projects meet the mission of WM and WP, rather than some other Bowlderised version of the mission. On that, thins like trying to document branches of knowledge; these seem pretty clear to me, but will need teasing out and going through the examples. Many of the points about possible audience don't seem to be relevant once you look at the mission either. The Wiki is meant to produce what canbe produced, the audience are meant to choose what they want to read and why. There isn't a strong role for language policy in the latter, it seems to me it has more to do with relevance, accuracy and sustainability, which is all on the producer side. Since disqualification for those reasons is harder, some keep shifting the argument back to the consumer. But the mission is deliberately silent on the consumer. They are meant to choose what they want from the greatest possible menu, so WM policy concentrates on production.
:Thanks for helpiong with the questions btw and pointing out that Classical Chinese has a Wiki :) --[[Usor:JimKillock|JimKillock]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:JimKillock|disputatio]]) 22:53, 10 Septembris 2021 (UTC)