Aphaia wrote:
On 3/27/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 3/26/06, Benjamin Webb
<bjwebb67(a)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.
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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