Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-21 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Amir, hello Casey, Actually I am currently interested in policies of different language versions (article deletion, sources etc.), and thought about reviving the Tell us project for that. Most Wikipedians are busy only in one or two Wikipedias thoroughly, and hardly anyone knows how much

[Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, I'm writing this as the follow-up to Jimmy Wales' Wikimania keynote about small Wikipedias, or, as some people correctly say, Wikipedias in underprivileged languages. (It's strange to use the word small anywhere near Bengali, for example.) Is there some recorded body of knowledge about

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have blogged often about this subject. If you want to create a level playing field for languages (the topic of my presentation at Wikimania) you have to make sure that there is a level playing field. While MediaWiki supports many languages there are issues that we have not addressed. Many

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/18 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Amir, we talked about issues with right to left languages at Wikimania in Gdansk, that is another can of wurms where we need people to pick up the slack. At translatewiki.net we are looking for developers who are able and willing to help

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Oliver Keyes
There's an en-wiki project I'm getting involved in that is planning outreach to smaller wikis. Would you like me to give you a ping when we launch? On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2010/7/18 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Amir,

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do you have an URL for this project ? Thanks, GerardM On 18 July 2010 15:45, Oliver Keyes scire.fac...@gmail.com wrote: There's an en-wiki project I'm getting involved in that is planning outreach to smaller wikis. Would you like me to give you a ping when we launch? On Sun, Jul

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Oliver Keyes
It's currently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IShadowed/Outreach; we only started work on putting it together a couple of days ago. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, Do you have an URL for this project ? Thanks, GerardM On 18

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, I am also very interested by this topic, mainly about Hindi and Gujarati among other Indian languages. Please keep me in touch. Regards, Yann 2010/7/18 Oliver Keyes scire.fac...@gmail.com: There's an en-wiki project I'm getting involved in that is planning outreach to smaller wikis.

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Oliver Keyes
Will do. I did suggest Urdu as a test run, but it didn't quite conform with our early requirements. I'm going to push for it again when we've worked out if this project can work. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am also very interested by this

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/18 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hello, I'm writing this as the follow-up to Jimmy Wales' Wikimania keynote about small Wikipedias, or, as some people correctly say, Wikipedias in underprivileged