On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 22:25, Walter Vermeir wrote:
Chuck Smith wrote:
I think we should hire full-time editors especially for the non-English Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia had a full-time Larry Sanger to help jump-start the Wikipedia, but the other languages (to my knowledge) never had such luxuries. As I said before, I would
What is the hurry?
A lot of the Wikipedias who have now a active comunity and many articles have started very slow whit only 1 or 2 members.
With all respect to the good work done by busy people may I point out that the money is better spent on technical support issues.
I am a member of 3 people who have shown interest in the 'ta' module (already one is uncommunicative which probably isa good thing as wikis go :). But I am very concerned about the requests to correct the totally misleading interpretation of the licence terms (free as in 'gratis' instead of 'libre') not being attended to in the LanguageTa.php or request on how to set up a mailing list being unanswered. This stops me from giving publicity in the correct places (I believe to be iseal in the correct time etc....)
I understand the money/resources at hand is not a great amount (at the moment) but why not spend it toWards getting the important technical/legal matters like these sorted out as a priority.
I remember the very early period of the Dutch Wikipedia, it looks now so long ago... Very few people. Every new vistor used to be a real event. The first 100 articles... Trying to find out how to be a Wikipedia, a real one, not just a copy of the Mother of all Wikipedias, the English.
Exactly. A copy of 'en' is a bad idea. Especially if an artificial pace is set to mirror the inequality in printed material (by DP like mechanisms). I hope you give considerations to the negative effect of hegemony of English (or any European language for that matter) had contributed to non-free information.
Yes, it takes time. But you need it. It creates a social structure and a history.
... and captures informed free knowledge.
Wikipedia is a encyclopedia by the people for people. If the people of a language are not interested to create a wikipedia the do not get a wikipedia.
hear hear.
Regards,
Ramanan