On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:04 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2011 13:57, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it, probably), then both are failures.
First thing would be a Wikisource or similar then. Just gather up as much material as possible and get it online, in a manner that isn't process-heavy
process isn't a problem. lack of man power and critical mass is. most people are more interested in wikipedia.
(e.g. the recent description of the ridiculous faff to get a thesis into Wikisource).
born-digital thesis are not are conservation problem.
Do we have anything for languages without a written form? Shove audio/video onto Commons?
Wikisource for transcriptions of the audio. We have a few featured texts of this type.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:FT