IMHO is easier to start a Wikisource than a Wikipedia: you just need scans of some written works out of copyright. It's a fisrt stemp, and a low hanging fruit.
Aubrey On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Unicode support is not that big of a deal. It's growing all the time, and > the Unicode standard itself is ahead of Wikipedia and will likely remain > ahead of it for a while. The operating systems' actual support for it is > far from perfect, but it isn't a huge in itself either. > > Existence of written works is not a problem in itself at all. > Theoretically, a Wikipedia can be written completely based on > foreign-language sources. The challenge is to actually get people who speak > languages that don't have written works to start creating the first written > work. It's not impossible, but it's culturally challenging. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > 2014-04-22 16:51 GMT+03:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <[email protected]>: > > > How many languages exist? > > |_ How many languages have written works? > > |_How many languages have UNICODE support? > > > > That is the max number of Wikisource projects we can create :-P > > > > > > 2014-04-22 15:12 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> That means that it's the best starting point to raise that number > from > > > >> 157 per million to ~1000 per million. If WM UK would be successful > in > > > >> achieving that goal, we'd know that it's possible. And we'll have > some > > > >> ideas how to do that. > > > > > > > > In real numbers: We need there 100 active editors. > > > > > > Sorry, 70. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
