JimKillock
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: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)
::I'll add this point right here too because the last thing I want to do is to muddy the waters for the ancient Greeks. They would find it much easier to prove what they need to prove if they could include church Greek as we include church and botanical Latin. This is a little harder in the Greek case because there are noticeable grammatical differences. But in Thessalonica three years ago I bought a book about travels to Mount Athos with a long preface by an archbishop and an academic introduction by the editor, the first in church Greek, the latter tending towards ancient (in a similar Latin case, and cases surely exist, the two registers would be barely distinguishable). The fact is, anyone who's studied any of the historical forms of Greek can just as easily read all of them: and not very many people actually write in the full ancient register. [[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew Dalby]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby|disputatio]]) 09:16, 11 Septembris 2021 (UTC)
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