Hoi, We have at this moment a language request and its first project is a Wiktionary. There are exceptions to the rule :) Thanks, GerardM
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Pitjant...
On Jan 17, 2008 12:06 AM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008 6:03 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/01/2008, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
One idea that still kicks around in my head is the idea that a language's first project should not be a "wikipedia" or a "wikibooks", but instead an undifferentiated, general-purpose wiki that can be used to encompass all the various projects. For instance, you start out with a project on which you can write articles/books/quotes/news/etc. Once you reach certain goals, you will be allowed to differentiate certain projects: A wikipedia, then a wikinews, a wikibooks, wiktionary, etc. In this way, speakers of a foreign language have the capability to write books/articles/news/quotes/dictionaries/etc all at once. Think of it like an incubator for a single language.
Indeed. Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikisource were created because the English Wikipedia community at the time decided those things didn't go in "an encyclopedia." Another community may well decide otherwise.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a community that wants to write a dictionary, and then decides that the articles that are springing up are not "dictionaryish" enough for wiktionary. We shouldn't make the assumption that every new language wants to start with a wikipedia, or that the members of one language will be all interested in doing the same thing at first.
--Andrew Whitworth
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