tarquin wrote:
Rotem Dan wrote:
Each wikis is, after all, an independent internet website.
But whenever we talk about better links between them, people start saying "it's ONE encyclopedia in many languages!". Make up your mind!
The problem is that (YET AGAIN) people are focussing on STYLE OVER CONTENT. You do NOT make the he: pedia good by designing a flashy new logo & a new skin. You make it good by putting your nose to the grindstone and writing ARTICLES. It shouldn't matter what it looks like as long as it's clear and the content is good.
ONE skin, ONE logo, across all wikipedias, running the SAME SOFTWARE please. Let's present a unified front to the world, in many languages, instead of a hotch-potch patchwork of different colours and styles.
-- tarquin (and please pass on to the he: guys that their comments are welcome and indeeed requested on my current work on a new default skin)
Actually I am more focused in completing the articles about Mathematics and Set theory I'm currently working on. Taking care of style/logo/administration/embassy stuff is just something no one on the Hebrew wiki is doing, and as I said before, I am really not interested in these things so I thought I would quickly kill those last language transition bugs, tune the layout and help oragnizing the logo votes.
I was really surprised in the amount of opposition I got on the mailing lists for my request for permission to make simple, non-harmful modifications to he-pedia's layout (and I gave the exact details, see previous posts on Wikitech-l).
If you say it's complicated, then you probably know what you're talking about, to me it looks like changing a few HTML tags (all modifications I wanted to do can be overwritten quickly in an update from CVS). I am getting truely disgusted from talking about this any longer.
Rotem