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(a)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(a)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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