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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