Talking about multilingual MediaWiki, Rodovid already has a certain level of that implemented.
You have one user account for every language and one watchlist for all languages. Also, because Genealogical data is facts, the database is shared among every language, with a different language enterface. So if you add a person in English, another person will be able to see that record in Ukranian.
On 27/03/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Aphaia wrote:
On 3/27/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/26/06, Benjamin Webb bjwebb67@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.
-- Aphaea@*.wikipedia.org email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com
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
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