https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607
--- Comment #98 from Siebrand <[email protected]> 2012-04-04 15:13:58 UTC --- This issue was discussed by e-mail between the Wikidata people (Denny), Erik Moeller, Alolita Sharma, Robla and Tim Starling end of december 2011, beginning of 2012. In the e-mail thread, I asked Denny to update the status of this issue, and he confirmed he would on 2012-01-06. I guess he didn't get to that. So here's my relevant text from that thread: As promised my feedback. I'll be short, given the earlier input, not in the least by Denny. Given the near 100 comments on bug 15607, the years of discussion that already preceeded the opening of bug 15607 in 2008 and my personal in-depth knowledge of the incredible efforts and resources that it takes to maintain interlanguage links in Wikipedia alone, let alone for Wiktionary and other projects -- SieBot has made over 10 million interwiki edits -- this is a hot topic in a part of the (very active) (bot running) community. Partly because this issue has been open and actively discussed for this long, and because of the WMDE run Wikidata project's goals and timeline, I think it's not a good idea to shepard an interim solution now-ish and try AND implement a solid future proof solution based on Wikidata before the end of 2012. Despite the relatively easy technical transition for the interlanguage extension, these types of changes require large community engagement efforts to implement successfully, and doing that twice in one year would, frankly and in my opinion, be sub-optimal use of our time. If there is substantial pressure from the Wikimedia executives, I wouldn't resign over it, but for now I would prefer to not spend my team's resources on it. Is that okay with you, Erik? I would like to ask Denny to update bug 15607 with the current insights and a timeline. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
