Aphaia wrote:
On 3/27/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/26/06, Benjamin Webb bjwebb67@googlemail.com wrote:
Even though your e-mail could be seen as critisising me, I greatly appreciate it. Any feedback at all is useful for me. You mentioned having an opinion poll. Could I start that now? The proposal has been on meta for a week.
The policy for new projects states that projects must be discussed for "at least a month" before a poll is taken: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy
Also, I would like to add such poll concerning with the Foundation level should be grobal, hence multilingual.
With exceptions like Wikimedia Commons which is needed to be kept as unscattered, I have no reason to support any monolingual project as Wikimedia ones, specially after haven seen Wikispecies and its two years inactivity. Currently, I have found only English speakers showed interest to the suggestion and it brought me if our grobal community has interested in the idea now discussed.
-- Aphaea@*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com
Hoi, When it comes to multilingual projects, it is relevant to mention that development on Multilingual MediaWiki has started ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki ). Your suggestion that Commons should stay a monolingual project is something that I have problems with. Currently it is only useful for people who speak English. When you are looking for pictures of animals or plants you have to know your Latin. :(
As to Wikispecies, it is a great idea that came before its time. Its time will come I am sure. :)
When Multilingual MediaWiki is "Brion ready, accepted and merged", it will be possible to have a genealogy project where more parts of the user interface can be localised. One of the fun aspects of genealogy is that you will find what parts of a family comes from what parts of the globe; it is therefore important to have a user interface that allows for people from all over the globe to collaborate. :)
Thanks, GerardM