Author: a7286517tgyty
Description:
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Request for the Belarusian (normative) language (also referred to as
academic, modern, official, the language taught at schools, *state
language* of the Republic of Belarus, etc.etc.) now seems to match all
the criteria to get a wikipedia opened.
It has gathered seemingly healthy 3/4 of the votes in Meta (the
request was recently transferred to the "Approved requests" section),
has the significant number of articles and growth rate (2500+,
possibly 2700, articles in ~3 months), and there are at least 8 active
contributors.
Currently, the WP functioning at http://be.wikipedia.org is
staunchly controlled by the admins coming from the interest group,
promoting the use of the alternative version of the Belarusian
language (orthography, grammar, lexicon; self-naming "classical"),
posing it as the only "really existing and supported" version of the
Belarusian language, pretending to represent all Belarusian language
speakers with this version -- see the discussion and the references.
The normative version is nominally supported there, but rather as a
"live shield" for the alternative version of the language (interface
and texts of rules and categories all done in alternative, permanent
"flashmobbing" of dissenters) -- see the discussion and the
references.
The working "through the orthography convertor" is a red herring
thing, as there is quite more to the differences in the versions of
the language, than "just the difference", and there is no such
*known-working* product with workable database. If the clarifications
or explanations would be needed, please contact us.
The [[:m:Special projects subcommittees/Languages]] is informed about
the problem, has supposedly submitted the request to the Board.
However, some management and communication problems sem to exist, so
possibly the coordination with them would be advisable.
The members of the team of the Belarusian (normative) language
Wikipedia have no wish to evict or close anybody's else Wikipedia. We
would be quite happy with the domain "bel.wikipedia.org"
(iso-639-2,3). We consider this stretching of the rules as non-harming
and consensus-making as possible.
Thank you.
Contact persons are
User:Yury Tarasievich on incubator.wikimedia.org
User:Anton Kazmyarchuk on incubator.wikimedia.org
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Belarusian_normative