I would point out that the person who intiated that request was not even aware that el.WS was already hosting ancient greek texts at the time. My opinion is that we should not duplicate efforts across multiple wikisources. As I said then, if further experience shows us there is significant problem the situation should be debated at that point, not before people even try to work it out. I also believe that there are a number of solutions to your valid concern, outside of creating a marginally viable subdomain.
Birgitte SB
--- Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
There was some debate about this regarding Ancient Greek.
Should Ancient Greek texts be put on the Greek Wikisource, since the interface is by default in Modern Greek, which will be difficutl to understand for some people looking for texts in Ancient Greek? Should it have its own Wikisource with an interface in Ancient Greek?
Nobody suggested housing it at Oldwikisource... but I for one was in favor of having a new Wikisource with an interface in Ancient Greek.
Mark
On 05/04/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Yann Forget wrote:
Hello,
On 4/2/07, *Birgitte SB* wrote:
Due to past conversations I have had with
people
involved with incubator, I read the comment
about
"merging processes" differently than you
did. Perhaps
I am mistaken, and that is not what was
meant in this
case.
This clearly shows the misunderstanding of what
Wikisource is and what
[[:oldwikisource:]] is meant for.
Although some Wikipedias will remain small for a
long time because of
lack of contributors, some Wikisources will never
get more than a few
dozen or hundreds of pages, simply because the
original content in that
language doesn't exist. Another example is
Sanskrit (a bit more than
1700 pages) which could qualify to have its own
subdomain because of the
amount of content, but does not because of lack
of contributors.
Although we could dream to have the whole of
Shakespeare and Victor Hugo
translated in Sanskrit, the quantity of existing
Sanskrit texts will
never be more than a few thousand pages. For some
other languages, it
will ever be much less, so creating and
*maintaining* a wiki for only a
few pages is quite a waste of work and time.
That's why
[[:oldwikisource:]] exists and will continue to
do so. In that sense,
this interwiki name is also badly chosen.
Of course the fundamental difference is that a
Wikipedia is there for
the benefit of those who currently write in and
work in that language.
A Wikisource contains texts in its language even
if it is a dead
language. Old English texts do not need a
complete interface in Old
English.
Ec
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