Hi, as for new project launching, I support Elian and Yann: it is not the time for us to start a new large projects. It is the time to care for existing projects including their new language projects.
On 6/29/05, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
I guarentee that ignoring the new project proposals completely is going to be a gradual death to Wikimedia and eventually Wikipedia. Most groups are desparate for fresh blood and new ideas, and by killing that avenue completely, it will have an overall chilling effect on the rest of all Wikimedia projects.
Partly agreed, on that most groups are desperate for fresh blood and new ideas, but in my observation it seldom comes from the newer and smaller projects (Babel [you may not confuse it with ex-Babylon or Meta:Babel] is one glorious exception; I think also Chinese Wikipedia's merit system as interesting, but surely most of Wikimedians - even Wikipedians haven't noticed that). Most of projects, like English Wikipedia are a sort of intellectus activus - self-sufficient, or auto-poesis i.e. closed but dynamic system: Or I might say they are loosely monadic; they but have no window, though reflect all others, specially as for larger projects.
On the contrary, small wikis, like just launching Wiktionary, need support from larger communities - same projects in different languages and larger (mostly Wikipedia) project in the same language. And larger projects seem to moan by its growing pain currently. They need to help themselves at first and sometimes not capable to care their sibling projects. In general a new project can hardly start by only newcomers - they need experienced people on the other projects, and in the long term it would be rewarded but currently we need to concentrate clear and present problems on larger existing projects. Here we should set our priority to care for those project suffering many problems, legally, comuniticatively, on governance, etc ... and seek steady and practical solution, not adventure to launch new projects for the sake of their potential merits.