Requests for new languages/Wikisource Belorussian

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Belorussian Wikisource

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	This proposal has been rejected. This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page. The closing committee member provided the following comment: The Language Committee members refuse to invest their time and work on any of the two Belarusian Communities until they start to peacefully co-operate with each other as all wmf entities are expected to do. --Bèrto 'd Sèra 21:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal summary
Language details: Belorussian (беларуская, be) Editing community: Yury Tarasievich (NP), Mienski (NP), Yaroslav Zolotaryov (P) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: test project External links: —
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Belorussian language has a developed culture, including literature, and should have its own Wikisource. This Wikisource will also be useful for studies of Belorussian cuture, laws, language, and I hope this project can unite all Belorussians despite of their political views, and work with this project can lessen the contradictions in Belorussian Internet-society. --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 14:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{oppose}}: Please start inserting new texts at the http://wikisource.org/wiki/ and categorize it properly; See also http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests/Rules_for_voting. 555 11:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- We already do this, see RC of wikisource.org. But we use this place too, for attract more attention to the Belorussian problems and maybe gain more contributors to the test Wikisource. --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 12:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, I see it. But please remeber to categorize all of these pages using a category specifc to the belorussian language. I'm removing the oppose due to this (I don't have anything against this language, I only need to all going to be done orderly) 555 23:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since this wikisource edition should be a collection of original text in whatever orthography they have been originally written, I sincerely hope that this project will unite the two camps which currently run separate wikipedia editions (be: and be-x-old:) --Johannes Rohr 22:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
PS: I don't know about Belarusian copyright law - Are the works of Janka Kupala already in the public domain? IIRC, according to German law, this takes 70 years after the author's death. What are the regulations in Belarus? --Johannes Rohr 22:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]