What about having both central and local versions? I mean, for community
stuffs localization is clearly a big pro, and those who are more
interesting to get extra-localized works could go to the central
repository which would gather all localized mainspaces.
Le 29/11/2015 18:39, Andrea Zanni a écrit :
In theory, I agree with Alex: in an ideal world, we would have tens of
developers supporting Wikisource (paid by the WMF, by the chaptes, by
GLAMs), we would have many rich communities, and we could surely
imagine a new structure of all our websites would that allow us to
store books in the same place, and at the same time have different
village pumps and interfaces and gadgets etc.
Unfortunately, for the time being, we hare scattered communities with
no software support whatsoever: we don't have a Proofread page for
Right-to-left languages, just imagine how much time it would take to
redesign a MediaWiki for being a multilanguage, unique digital
library, in which anyone can contribute.
I try to be more concrete and think about smaller goals we can achieve
right now: maybe, in few years we can rediscuss this :-)
Aubrey
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There's a unique feature of wikisource: anyone can contribute,
even if he /doesn't know at all the language of the text that it
is editing/ (it is sufficient to recognize the characters of that
language). It would be a little bit painful, but I could proofread
an hungarian text, finding and fixing some scannos. A small
contribute, but a valuable one. On the contrary, I can't
contribute at all to any other hungarian project.
I could too apply some basic formatting to the
same, incomprehensible hungarian text, but only using standard
wiki markup, or css/html, that are /universal languages/. I could
do most of needed work using shared templates and scripts, without
any knowledge of the hungarian language.
This uniqueness of wikisource (only shared by images and other
media into Commons) has been underestimated IMHO.
Alex
2015-11-29 14:48 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
Asaf Bartov, 29/11/2015 14:40:
One significant advantage of per-language Wikisources is
that the
interface language is appropriate
That's a bug, as well: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58464
I agree it's shameful that WMF doesn't fix the most
fundamental bugs which make collaboration harder, even when
they've been known for a decade AND software is available to
fix them.
Nemo
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