Hi all, I didn't read the whole discussion, but let me put here few links: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikisource/Archives/2003 (there are more archives..) and http://wikisource.org/wiki/User:Angela
>From what I recall, the problem was Hebrew Wikisource, and generally LTR languages. As Amir (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni, cc'ed) can explain to us, LTR languages are a big and underrated issue. Aubrey On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote: > Jane Darnell, 02/06/2013 11:12: > > Alex thanks for that perspective. I myself was wondering if anyone >> counted how many entries are in the books category here: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Category:Books<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books> >> >> and then the entries for books per sister project on Wikisource. My >> gut feeling is that the number per Wikisource entity will be smaller, >> but I may be wrong >> > > Yes but that's not a problem, it's a feature. Wikisource is (currently) > not for browsing masses of books like archive.org or Google Books (which > do that job very well); it's for choosing a subset of those books and > working on them more intensively for interlinking, proofreading etc. There > may be thousands of "unused" books on Commons, but there are millions more > out there: Wikisource uses and encourages work on those which makes most > sense to work on (in theory). > I don't think this relates to splitting/reunifying that much, but Alex is > right in pointing out how there are some aspects that we *could* want to > solve; once you define what you want to solve, it's easier to decide tools > for it. > > Nemo > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l> >
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