Hoi,
At that I am on the record that the language committee should ease up on
the creation of new Wikisources particularly when there is institutional
support for a Wikisource in a language. When the Board has approved new
rules for our committee I want it to be discussed again.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 16 April 2017 at 07:41, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> >
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