From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Subject: [Foundation-l] My 10 wishes list for 2008
- Promotion of lesser known projects
Whilst Wikipedia has probably reached the top of its fame in the press of many nations, and enjoys the largest communities, other wikimedia projects are being increasingly successful. Commons has now over 2.000.000 free objects and is a unique case of multilingual community-based project. The largest Wiktionary is not english speaking, but french-speaking, a unique situation in wikimedia project and probably a showcase for the francophony. Wikibooks now hosts several high quality books, and also receive as donations, books originally under regular copyright protection and released under a free license, again, showcases of the interest of the educational world for the free movement. I would like these projects to be shown more attention by the Foundation, including more promotion efforts in conferences, press release and promotional leaflets, more interest to their specific technical needs, and more representativity of their communities.
One can add de.Wikisource which is a project making historical Public Domain texts in German available with high quality standards. These standards are NOT (yet) shared by the other Wikisource projects, see also
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#The_huge_leap
Only de.Wikisource demands scanned texts (or digital photos) for contributions, most other Wikisource branches have a lot of texts which are unsourced. De.Wikisource has notes commenting the texts for lots of texts.
Klaus Graf