What I find especially interesting is not the native Asutralian languages,
which have a handful of speakers only, but the fact that in India, over 99
percent of people prefer to edit in English than in their native languages. It
would be interesting to see the results once native languages are included in
the sample.
Danny
>David Gerard:
>there isn't a central bibliographical reference
>base, as some have mooted. If you can code something that will both
>work and be sensibly usable by casual editors, I suspect it would be
>most welcomed ...
Take a look at the Wikicat/Wikicite idea on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicitehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat
I was told recently that most of the Wikicite code has been written.
For the longer term.....at Wikimania we discussed a detailed fact-checking
process, possibly using Wikicite, and this would use a separate list of
sources, so a user who wants to check a fact in a validated article could
find the source for every fact...but that's at least 2 years away, I'd
say. I understand that Wikicite/Wikicat would support such a feature.
See the link below for more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pushing_to_validation
Martin A. Walker (User:Walkerma)
As an admin on Anarchopedia, one guy asked me to open "disability
Anarchopedia". You can see our talk on the page
http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/User_talk:Millosh#Dear_Millosh.2C
(from this heading to the rest of the page).
Hm. There is no problem to open one or more MediaWikis, but the same
MediaWiki engine would to nothing. I was thinking about changing of
Monobook skin, but it seems that it is not enough.
As this is not only Anarchopedia-related question; as well as it
should be implemented on Wikimedian projects, too; as well as this is
important issue -- I would like to hear is there any good solution for
people with disabilities so they can be able to equally contribute to
MediaWiki projects?
I was thinking about using Emacs (it has wiki interface and I am sure
that I found that it has some interfaces for persons with
disabilities), but Emacs is too complex...
Is there anything else which can be used? If not, is there a people
who are willing to work on such issue? If not, may WMF fund a project
with aim to solve this problem?
I'm not sure if any issue like this has been raised before anywhere on
Wikipedia. Policy says delete, but I think, discuss. Look at the Holocaust
one. The information there is valuable, but FAR too much to add to the main
article.
Should we
* Allow bibliographic articles?
* Include a MASSIVE reference section at the bottom of the main Holocaust
article?
* Include it in a {{hidden}} template?
* Lose most of that information?
* Wikicat/Wikibibliography project?
I think this issue merits consideration.