I was against the idea of creating a Masry Wikipedia (there is a looong thread where I brought it up here), *However* I am against deleting any Wikipedia that has been created and picked up an active community, regardless of how controversial it is. It is simply unfair to the people who have invested their time in the 300 something articles it has now. I think that is the correct thing to do despite the volume of complaints from people we are recieving on ar.wp and OTRS.
That said, I am personally taking issue with LangCom. - Gerard has been the *only* person from LangCom that I have seen reply to any of the issues, his replies are selective, he refuses to answer whatever he doesnt think is relevant to his argument and is in general very aggressive, If the guys at LangCom chose him as the public face, I would say they were looking to pick fights rather than communicate decisions. - I Have asked several times about the delibration process and how the tons of arguments given on the controversial Masry topic were considered, I one time got an answer that was simply 'Can't disclose the arguments because of privacy issues of committee members' and the other was 'There was no arguments, I asked on the mailing list if I can create it and no one said no'. Both answers suggest an either disengaged committee or one that doesnt think transparency of the decision process is important, but rather, secretive decision is better. - After looking on the meta page for the committee, I asked if the committee has any mechanism for determining inactive members, if the process of decision is 'I sent an email and no one objected', that may mean approval, but it also may mean that people are not active. I got no answer for the question but Immediately after Masry controversy, two committee members resigned and one was removed for inactivity without any explanation given, is that an acknowledgement that the committee was malfunctioning? Why wasnt there some kind of public explaination. -- Best Regards, Muhammad Alsebaey _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
