Milos, thank you for the very comprehensive presentation of the problem. There are other cases that could be mentioned, it is indeed a problem touching most of the language editions. I am sceptical about automatic conversion. As you said, it is mainly a solution for reading, but not for writing, because the source text is in one specific spelling or character system. As a result there are mainly two ways to deal with that: - a split of the Wikipedias into two; this is most likely when there are other linguistic differences e.g. in dictionary. - one variety has so much support in the linguistic community that the minority is small and discouraged to create a Wikipedia of their own. In that case automatic conversion is a nice conveniency, but as editors the minority users more or less have to adapt to the majority. Alas. Kind regards Ziko
2009/4/1 Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It sounds like a good project for a directed grant. Have you tried > > contacting potential grant-making organisations? I imagine some > > awesome things could be done with as little as $100K. > > First, sorry for forgetting you. You were the only person which > responded positively toward this idea :) > > I am thinking again about funding... Thanks for raising this idea into > my mind again. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
