Gerard, that seems like quite a bit of money, I'd be curious to know
what exactly that would be spent on, in detail.
2011/3/5 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
The Wikimedia Foundation is a five hundred pound gorilla in the field of
building language resources in the languages that have a smaller footprint
on the Internet. I am convinced that for a million Euros we can make sure
that all languages have technically a level playing field.
I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major
improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages
we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken feed.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 March 2011 22:58, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5 March 2011 21:48, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and
MediaWiki is a
volunteer
is a fallacy.
The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and
scripts are performing technically on a level playing field. This is not
the
case and there is a lot that can be achieved with
modest investments. At
this stage we do not want to invest in specific languages to create
content.
If a language is viable and can operate on a
level playing field the
communities will do their thing in the way that fits for them.
Yes. The advocates of a minimal Foundation are missing the point that
"in their own language" is an extremely good reason to spend money on
the necessary translations and so forth.
The Chapter structure is a brilliant way to get this sort of thing
locally self-organising and not be run from San Francisco. But as Amir
points out, this results in very patchy coverage.
Really. Take the sentence:
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
- and think of how to fund everything that implies, or to fund its
encouragement, or to fund encouraging the funding of its
encouragement. The WMF as it stands is *tiny* for such a goal.
- d.
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