Hoi, At that I am on the record that the language committee should ease up on the creation of new Wikisources particularly when there is institutional support for a Wikisource in a language. When the Board has approved new rules for our committee I want it to be discussed again. Thanks, GerardM
On 16 April 2017 at 07:41, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Nicolas, Multilingual Wikisource is a non-issue and it won't be an issue as long as it has a decent community fulfilling its goals and helping others.
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I can't speak and don't know well beta wikiversity but for wikisource
there
is a some good arguments for keeping it. As both closure are often cite together I'd like to give some explanations here (rather short, don't hesitate to ask if you ant to know more).
First, Old Wikisource (historical name, but « Multingual Wikisource / mulwikisource » is more and more used) is not just a incubator but a
central
hub, a bit like the meta for wikisources.
Wikisources has very specified tools and extensions that are specific to Wikisource (first and most importantly the Proofread Extension - with
its 2
specific namepaces - which is used for 94 % of fr.ws texts, 97 % of
pl.ws,
50 % of it.ws, etc.). It's not undoable but moving mul.ws to incubator
would
require a lot of technical works to avoid breaking basic things (and we
only
have 2-3 devs who know how Wikisource works).
Multilingual wikisource is quite active (and not just of incubation - althought it's the main activity - but for meta centralisation too). And Wikisource dynamic is very different from other project, ad no activity
is
not a bad sign ; the basic unit of work is a book and it can be
completely
finished unlike Wikipedia article, Wiktionary entry, Commons cat, etc.
Finally, mul.ws precedes Incubator and precedes all Wikisources,
Wikisource
was a multingual project between 2003 and 2005 ; there is a fringe
movement
for re-uniting again all the Wikisources on mul.ws (it probably will
never
happen but I think it's a nice goal and along the way a lot of efforts
are
done for internationalisation and mulculturalisation of Wikisources
tools).
Cdlt, ~nicolas
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