One idea which was spelled out many times but never took off is that of a Wiki-compendium. If we are talking about a language which is let us say not endangered, has a reasonably large number of speakers but not millions, and only has a limited number of sources published in this language - the Wiki-community is typically not large, may be a dozen or a couple of dozens speakers. Yakut (Sakha) is a good example of such language, Tatar would be another one. They do not have resources to support Wikipedia, Wikisource, and possibly even Wikibooks and Wiktionary at the same time, and they have to concentrate on Wikipedia as the largest project. The idea was that for such languages the traditional division between sister projects is not really useful, but one project, which would comprise Wikipedia, Wikisource, and possibly others would be much better so that the editors would just be in one central place, and every speaker of this language would know what the place is. The idea is old, at least as old as LangCom, and the fact it never took off probably means that it is somehow flawed - I just do not know how.
Cheers Yaroslav On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2018-02-28 16:03 GMT+02:00 Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca>: > > > > The Wikimedia movement is more than encyclopedias... We already have > > Wikiversity for teaching, no? Are efforts to contribute to Wikiversity > and > > other sister projects making us lose focus? I'm not sure to understand > what > > you are saying. > > Paid translation of Wikipedia articles to underresourced languages is a > project that I can easily imagine. What needs to be done is quite clear; > the questions are how to get the resources for this, and how to make it not > too biased for undesirable interests, neither Western nor local. > > Improving Wikiversity (or Wikibooks) is possibly a valid thing, but I just > don't know how to do it. Of course, I'm not the only person in this > movement; I'm just one of thousands of editors, and I also happen to be an > analyst in the Foundation staff, and my decision-making capacities are > very, very limited. If anybody has a *good* idea on how to improve them, it > would be awesome. > > When I compare a project with a pretty easy-to-draft path, and an > understandable goal (paid translation, growing a language's online > presence), to a project the goal of which is finding ideas for how to > improve Wikiversity, I'd bet my resources on paid translation (if it even > was my decision to make). And I have to remind again, that I, in > particular, am very biased about the topic of translation, so really, you > don't have to agree with me ;) > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
