Axel wrote:
I think we should junk our Spanish Wikipedia, provide
a link to their
site on our main page (they probably don't like to be called
Wikipedia, so we could simply say "non-English sister projects") and
have our interwiki links point to them rather then to the Spanish
Wikipedia.
And if we ask nicely, we may even get a link back to
wikipedia.com.
Axel
We can try to cooperate, but I got the distinct feeling from reading their
about page at :
http://enciclopedia.us.es/wiki.phtml?title=Enciclopedia+Libre+Universal+en+…
that they /really/ don't like us.
This especially seems true for the English Wikipedia where there is/are (and
I roughly quote); article censorship and fear of censorship, where
administrators harass contributors and delete pages (stated in a way that
suggests this is a form of excessive censorship), and where those same
administrators block pages from being edited (again suggesting that this is
some kind of unfair censorship).
They also seem to not like the fact that a "American for-profit .com company
that wants to establish a presence in the educational market* controls
Wikipedia (the .com part may be a directed toward wikipedia's URL and not
Bomis - my Spanish is rusty and the fish ain't much help).
All I can say is that they sure have a twisted sense of how things really
are.
giskart wrote:
A great thing of Wikipedia is the global aspect.
Please do not blow it.
giskart, Dutch Wikipedia
I agree. It is certainly possible to have amicable forks where an entire
language wiki moves to a different server and its software is maintained by
different developers. However, I think that in the long term the two
wikiware code-bases will eventually become incompatible and cross-linking and
any other future inter-lingua stuff will soon stop working. Hopefully this
type of interfunctionality will convince more and more Spanish speakers to
contribute to
es.wikipedia.com than to enciclopedia.us.es.
Jimbo wrote:
I'm very much opposed to closing any of our
language wikipedias.
--Jimbo
I now agree completely. I vote for keeping
es.wikipedia.com, load the new
software and then run the two projects side-by-side for at least a few
months. If activity doesn't improve much /then/ and only then should we even
consider closing the Spanish Wikipedia.
We above all else must respect those that still contribute to our Spanish
wiki. Besides as someone already said, we can port the EL stuff to our wiki
since they use the same license (<hint> I will help with this myself as soon
as Lee's excellent new software gets installed </hint> --- but please don't
ask me to help with the translations; its been so long since I've used it
that my written Spanish is down-right embarrassing).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)