[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 12:51:42 UTC 2008


On 17/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Do I understand that you want something like a "Wikicompendium", a resource
> > that would be particularly geared towards the least resourced languages ??
>
> I'm not asking for one as such, I'm just floating it as an idea. In a
> language with not much currently online at all, I suspect anything is
> more useful than nothing.

"Wikicorpus". Take whatever you can get - dictionary entries,
wordlists, poetry...

Makes a lot of sense for the smaller languages, and would be a *lot*
more practical as our contribution to language-preservation than a
formal encyclopedia would.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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