Nazīr wrote:Ok, well then please tell us how Unilang members can lobby to have specific individual language forums be eliminated in order to make room for forums that people actually will participate in?
Hmm, the problem is that you seem to operate under the assumption that the current forum structure has looked like this since always. But that's not true. The fact is that several language subforums have already been either booted or merged into one and a lot of them were actually European languages. Thank you for your suggestions, a few of them are quite along the lines of what we had in mind.
Nazīr wrote:I would also like to point out that all of the participants in this thread who actually are learning Bengali and/or Punjabi have expressed support for individual Bengali and Punjabi forums, though Bijlee is still apprehensive.
Well, that's how some of the existing forums were created. Some people wanted a place to learn the language they were interested in, the forum was created and then the learners eventually vanished and we got stuck with a dead forum.
Nazīr wrote: while languages that have hundreds of millions of speakers, but just happen to be spoken by brown people, are all relegated to a single forum?
Correlation (even if quite stretched) doesn't imply causation.
Nazīr wrote:but such a measure would only confirm Unilang's Eurocentrism.
I'm sure that a forum for Ainu does indeed prove how Eurocentric Unilang really is.
Our answer would have been the same had someone asked for a European language forum.
Nazīr wrote:Also if you don't mind me asking, in the group of administrators who make these decisions, how many people of color are there? Just curious.
Sorry, but such questions will not be dignified with an answer.