From: Mike Cleven <mikecleven(a)gmail.com>
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I"m also interested in seeing more advancement of the OTHER wiki-arenas, not
just Wikipedia; I've mentioned WikiTravel already, WikiNews also could use a
good Canadian contingent but is seriously staff-limited; making it easier
and quicker and more accessible to non-wikipedians could result in a new,
independent, news service in Canada, which is much-needed; but right now
they only have, as i recall, eight article reviewers, meaning taht the time
between someone submits something and when it passes review to get published
it's rarely any longer "news".....I'd also be curious about what
marketing/packaging efforts there are for the saleable aspects of WikiMedia
technologies, e.g. private wikis, corporate wikis, assocation wikis, and
what those licensing/costs issues are....
I agree that we shouldn't just focus on Wikipedia, but on a related note, we also
shouldn't focus solely on the English language. That doesn't just mean extending
out efforts to French, but also native languages such as Inuktitut, Cree and Ojibwe. Then
there are what (if anything) we should do about immigrant languages. (Did you know more
German and Ukranian are spoken by more people as a mother tongue in Saskatchewan than
French?).
The good news is that a lot what Wiki Canada can do in terms of freeing the world's
knowledge is completely independent of any language or Wikimedia Project.
Tom W