[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] International wikipedias and phase 3 software

[Brion VIBBER]

Lightning wrote:
> Shouldn't wikipedias that have not been started be moved to the new
> software? I mean, there is nothing to change so it seems to me, right now
> would be the best time to do something like that since there is no content
> and It'd be easier to start them in the new software rather than in the old
> and then convert them....
> there seems to be a lot of them.. look here:
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_list_of_language_wikis_avai
> lable
> 
> 
> Also can some pass this on to the international list, i suspect they might
> have some more views on this, but i really dont need the traffic from that
> list in my inbox.

I'll repeat what I said on the talk page:

   Yes, but volunteer labor is scarce and setting up a few dozen wikis
   that aren't being used and will have to be converted again the next
   time we make a major software change* isn't my idea of fun at the
   moment either. Any language that you want to use, mention it and I'll
   move it over. Anything else will wait until it's gotten around to.

For example, Xaos recently made noises about the unused -- and unusable 
-- Korean wiki, where the old software wasn't set up to handle an 
appropriate encoding. I set up a blank ko.wikipedia.org configured for 
Unicode support, and localization is ongoing.

*What I refer to here is the oft-suggested ability to combine views of 
multiple languages (and the meta wiki) into one interface; for instance, 
'Recentchanges' optionally showing changed articles in all the languages 
you work in plus the meta discussion; being able to select the interface 
language separately from the content language; having a single login 
work across all languages without having to separately set up accounts & 
log in all the time. This may require merging everything together into a 
single database, and the less databases to deal with at the time, the 
smoother it'll go.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)