On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:04 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 July 2011 13:57, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of >> current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it, >> probably), then both are failures. > > > First thing would be a Wikisource or similar then. Just gather up as > much material as possible and get it online, in a manner that isn't > process-heavy
process isn't a problem. lack of man power and critical mass is. most people are more interested in wikipedia. > (e.g. the recent description of the ridiculous faff to > get a thesis into Wikisource). born-digital thesis are not are conservation problem. > Do we have anything for languages without a written form? Shove > audio/video onto Commons? Wikisource for transcriptions of the audio. We have a few featured texts of this type. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:FT -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
