Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-24 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45, M. Williamson wrote: > There are currently 13 members of the committee, all of them live in > Europe, the US or Canada with the sole exception of Amir Aharoni, who > currently lives in Jerusalem but lived in Russia until 1991 and whose > native language is Russian. I

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-24 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2011/2/24 M. Williamson : > There are currently 13 members of the committee, all of them live in > Europe, the US or Canada with the sole exception of Amir Aharoni, who > currently lives in Jerusalem but lived in Russia until 1991 and whose > native language is Russian. I find it hard to be

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-24 Thread Lodewijk
{{sofixit}} :) 2011/2/24 M. Williamson > There are currently 13 members of the committee, all of them live in > Europe, the US or Canada with the sole exception of Amir Aharoni, who > currently lives in Jerusalem but lived in Russia until 1991 and whose > native language is Russian. I find it ha

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-24 Thread M. Williamson
There are currently 13 members of the committee, all of them live in Europe, the US or Canada with the sole exception of Amir Aharoni, who currently lives in Jerusalem but lived in Russia until 1991 and whose native language is Russian. I find it hard to believe that the language committee has been

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-24 Thread Lodewijk
As far as I am aware, but please correct me if I'm wrong, the language committee has always tried to gather a large diversity from all over the world. However, it seems hard to find people from underrepresented regions to bother themselves with this boring matter (no offense). So if you know a good

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You are correct :) Thanks, GerardM On 24 February 2011 00:50, Casey Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:55, Bishakha Datta > wrote: > >> One thought occurred to me: there is no representation of Asian > languages in > >

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread M. Williamson
To me, this is still a problem. If the committee never made any decisions and instead relied 100% on the opinions of others, then perhaps the composition wouldn't matter. However, think about this: if you gather a committee to make decisions about agriculture and recruit only from European countrie

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:55, Bishakha Datta wrote: >> One thought occurred to me: there is no representation of Asian languages in >> the committee (and I don't mean only Indian languages). Would the committee >> want to consider an expansi

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 15:31, M. Williamson wrote: > So my question for discussion is, what, if anything, can be done to > encourage growth and improved linguistic coverage in other areas of > the world? It requires active approach. Instead of defining the rules and stick with them, it requires

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:55, Bishakha Datta wrote: > One thought occurred to me: there is no representation of Asian languages in > the committee (and I don't mean only Indian languages). Would the committee > want to consider an expansion in membership to include someone who is fluent > in one

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 21:51, phoebe ayers wrote: > 1) you mean the committee will meet in May along with the hackathon, > correct? AFAIK the dates have not been set; the decision was made to > not have this in parallel with the chapters meeting as in the past. Yes. Because of the same reason we

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-21 Thread M. Williamson
How about this: Over the past several years, new projects have been approved and created improving our coverage of world languages. However, the vast majority of this growth since the formation of Langcom has been in European languages - a quick sampling reveals new Wikipedias in Rusyn (Eastern Eu

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-20 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > As I read the roster of the people who may attend, I am amazed at their > qualifications. All people are involved in their > Wikipediasin the > Incubator , they are > l

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-20 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > In Berlin, in parallel to the MediaWiki hackathon, > members of the language > committeeof the > Wikimedia > Foundation will

[Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, In Berlin, in parallel to the MediaWiki hackathon, members of the language committeeof the Wikimedia Foundation will meet for a first time in real life. As I read the roster of the peo