Nicolas, Multilingual Wikisource is a non-issue and it won't be an issue as long as it has a decent community fulfilling its goals and helping others.
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't speak and don't know well beta wikiversity but for wikisource there > is a some good arguments for keeping it. As both closure are often cite > together I'd like to give some explanations here (rather short, don't > hesitate to ask if you ant to know more). > > First, Old Wikisource (historical name, but « Multingual Wikisource / > mulwikisource » is more and more used) is not just a incubator but a central > hub, a bit like the meta for wikisources. > > Wikisources has very specified tools and extensions that are specific to > Wikisource (first and most importantly the Proofread Extension - with its 2 > specific namepaces - which is used for 94 % of fr.ws texts, 97 % of pl.ws, > 50 % of it.ws, etc.). It's not undoable but moving mul.ws to incubator would > require a lot of technical works to avoid breaking basic things (and we only > have 2-3 devs who know how Wikisource works). > > Multilingual wikisource is quite active (and not just of incubation - > althought it's the main activity - but for meta centralisation too). And > Wikisource dynamic is very different from other project, ad no activity is > not a bad sign ; the basic unit of work is a book and it can be completely > finished unlike Wikipedia article, Wiktionary entry, Commons cat, etc. > > Finally, mul.ws precedes Incubator and precedes all Wikisources, Wikisource > was a multingual project between 2003 and 2005 ; there is a fringe movement > for re-uniting again all the Wikisources on mul.ws (it probably will never > happen but I think it's a nice goal and along the way a lot of efforts are > done for internationalisation and mulculturalisation of Wikisources tools). > > Cdlt, ~nicolas > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
