Resources for the Volapuk case

I started to write a long post about Volapuk case. It became a very complex case because a lot of people are involved in arguing pro and contra “Radical cleaning of Volpauk Wikipedia“. Also, this case is not alone. While there are differences between this and other similar cases, at the bottom of those requests are staying the same or very similar reasons. Consequences of this case are, also, very important. While some of them I support, some of them are very problematic.

The whole analysis with my positions will be written in the separate post. This one should be used for gathering resources (pages, diffs, emails, blog posts…) in a “neutral manner”. (Yes, I know that the real “neutral manner” is not possible when the concept of gathering resources is not neutral — at least, I connected three cases: Lombard, Volapuk and Polish; but, at least, I won’t comment resources here.)

If you find that I didn’t add something, please, add it as a comment. Note about diffs: If you think that some wiki diff is important, please add it, too, even the main page is added here. The same is for any particularly important email.

As I see this as a part of the process which (up to now) escalated on the case of Volapuk Wikipedia, sources related to similar cases, including Lombard Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and generally automatic content adding — are welcome, too.

Volapuk Wikipedia

• First request (September 2007)
  • Previous discussion on Meta: Proposal for closing Volapuk Wikipedia.
    • User:Rosentod’s initial request from September 21st 2007.
    • List thread started
• Second request (December 2007)
  • The main page of this case on Meta: Radical cleaning of Volapuk Wikipedia.
    • Daniel Arnold’s initial request from December 25th, 2007.
    • Jimmy Wales’ comment from January 1st, 2008.
  • Mailing list thread started by Luiz Augusto.
    • Second thread (was split because of technical reasons)
    • Third thread (was split because of technical reasons)
    • Fourth thread (was split because of technical reasons)
  • Blogs
    • Eric Moeller: Managing wiki data, March 10th, 2007.
    • Eddie: Wikipedia in Volapük, an “exponential” growth, October 29th, 2007.
    • Daniel Arnold: The bot equivalent to the atom bomb was ignited, December 28th, 2007.
    • Brianna Laugher: Of bots and conlangs: the Volapük Wikipedia, December 31st, 2007.
    • Gerard Meijssen: Linguistic tolerance, December 31st, 2007.

Lombard Wikipedia

• Proposal for closing of Lombard Wikipedia.
  • Initial request made by User:Codice1000 (request was moved to subpage by Edward Chernenko); started at November 16th, 2006, but the main activity started at November 27th, 2007 (after closure of the proposal).

(Please, give links to foundation-l or any other WM list if you have them. I didn’t find them.)

Polish Wikipedia

• Proposal for radical cleanup of Polish Wikipedia.
  • Initial request made by User:Certh, December 28th, 2007.

~ by millosh on January 1, 2008.