Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread とある白い猫
I think we may want a historic texts wikisource/wikibooks particularly for texts in now extinct languages. Something sort of like commons for historic texts for all extinct languages. I do not know something like this was proposed before. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On Fri, Apr 18, 2008

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread M. Williamson
Holy ancient thread revival, Batman! This seems like a good idea... but in the case of Wikisource, wouldn't that already be covered by multilingual Wikisource? 2011/9/20 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com I think we may want a historic texts wikisource/wikibooks particularly for texts in

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
2011/9/21 M. Williamson node...@gmail.com: Holy ancient thread revival, Batman! This seems like a good idea... but in the case of Wikisource, wouldn't that already be covered by multilingual Wikisource? Yes, extinct/historical languages are collected by the multilingual Wikisource project.

[Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, (Sorry for cross-posting this.) In just two days, Wikimedia Sverige is once again going to participate at the Gothenburg Book Fair, which is the second largest book fair in Europe. Around 100 000 people come there every year from almost all of our target groups. This year, we have

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-20 Thread Fajro
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts? I am against anything that validates the image filter. I still believe that the filter is against the mission of the foundation. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-09-20 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:24:37PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Hello Fae, There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it self-evident to preserve. That reminds me of something O:-) Perhaps something like this? We, the wikimedia movement, hold these truths to be self

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term culturalarchive?

2011-09-20 Thread Phil Nash
Kim Bruning wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:24:37PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Hello Fae, There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it self-evident to preserve. That reminds me of something O:-) Perhaps something like this? We, the wikimedia movement, hold these

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/13/11 6:11 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: I am not a Wictionary contributor but I was never able to understand why we have Wictionaries in different language, though a big part of those seem to be translations on other languages, and they overlap. Would it not be advantageous to have

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread とある白い猫
Yes but isn't multilingual wikisource more of an incubator rather than exclusively for historic texts? It would make more sense to separate the two as inherently the two tasks have different goals in mind. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) 2011/9/20 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com 2011/9/21