IMHO is easier to start a Wikisource than a Wikipedia:
you just need scans of some written works out of copyright.
It's a fisrt stemp, and a low hanging fruit.
Aubrey
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Unicode support is not that big of a deal. It's
growing all the time, and
the Unicode standard itself is ahead of Wikipedia and will likely remain
ahead of it for a while. The operating systems' actual support for it is
far from perfect, but it isn't a huge in itself either.
Existence of written works is not a problem in itself at all.
Theoretically, a Wikipedia can be written completely based on
foreign-language sources. The challenge is to actually get people who speak
languages that don't have written works to start creating the first written
work. It's not impossible, but it's culturally challenging.
--
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-04-22 16:51 GMT+03:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>om>:
How many languages exist?
|_ How many languages have written works?
|_How many languages have UNICODE support?
That is the max number of Wikisource projects we can create :-P
2014-04-22 15:12 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> That means that it's the best starting point to raise that number
from
> >> 157 per million to ~1000 per
million. If WM UK would be successful
in
> >> achieving that goal, we'd know
that it's possible. And we'll have
some
> ideas how to do that.
In real numbers: We need there 100 active editors.
Sorry, 70.
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