@Alex Brollo: https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9D_(%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92)
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: > @Nahum: What is "Table interface"? Can you please link a page using it, > just to take a look? > > Alex > > 2015-12-01 1:44 GMT+01:00 Nahum Wengrov <[email protected]>: > >> Multilingual texts are not a priority (35 people in the conference didn't >>> even mention them, I think). >> >> >> Multilingual texts can either be treated on the ws of its main language. >> In case of a translation, that would most likely be the destination >> language. We have examples of English and Russian texts translated into >> Hebrew and placed side-by-side using Table interface in he.ws. In other >> cases the language site could be decided arbitrarily by the original >> contributor (perhaps according to where he feels more comfortable, either >> for his personal native language or for the specific community happening to >> be there), etc. The current form enables flexibility which would be >> unavialble on a single multilingual site and is most likely to drive >> possible contributors away. Just my 10 cents, based by my own personal >> experfience as a veteran he.ws (and former en.wp and he.wp) active >> editor. >> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Maybe it's me, >>> but I think that we are missing the real, huge point: *we are not ready >>> for this*. >>> >>> I mean, we, as a community: in the few days in Vienna, we discovered how >>> many problems each Wikisource and community has, and that was the first >>> time we had the chance to meet and talk (at that scale). >>> Yes, being all in the same place would maybe shorten the distance within >>> the international community, but it would be an enormous challenge for the >>> amount of software tweakings (gadgets, css, proofread page, layouts, >>> everything), and it would be a real, literal "babel" of languages. >>> And, remember, without the support of any engineer at the WMF! :-) >>> >>> So, please, keep our feet on the ground. Xanadu was the perfect model >>> for a digital library, and after 50 years is still not real. Our problem, >>> in Wikisource, is that each community has created little, complicated >>> gadgets and templates to do amazing things, but the result is that we are >>> overly complicated. >>> We need to simplify things, be better for our readers and beginners, new >>> editors. >>> Our strength is the community, above everything else. >>> That we have to nurture and care about. >>> >>> As much as I love the idea of a unique, Babelian (Borges style) digital >>> library, it won't happen if before we don't fix much more urgent things. >>> Multilingual texts are not a priority (35 people in the conference didn't >>> even mention them, I think). >>> >>> Aubrey >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Ankry, 29/11/2015 23:22: >>>> >>>>> > >>>>>> >What about two multilanguage Wikisources? One for RTL languages, >>>>>> another >>>>>> >for LTR languages. >>>>>> >>>>> ... and the third for some Asian scripts: >>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60729 ? >>>>> >>>>> And maybe a separate one for French: >>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14752 ? >>>>> >>>>> If you dig deeper then more such issues. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Again, this problem is already solved: content language can be decided >>>> per page. As usual, this is blocked on silly bottlenecks on WMF servers: >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 >>>> >>>> Nemo >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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