Wikipedia snagged some Bhutani coverage this week, though it seems to have been written a few months ago... A journalist writing for /kuensel online/, "Bhutan's daily news site," cheerfully noted the existence of a Dzongkha Wikipedia.
http://www.kuenselonline.com/article.php?sid=5656 http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilst_Ooli
Meanwhile the Chinese government is developing a editable encyclopedia of Chinese history, including all extant documents from before 1911. According to Xinhuanet, "Volunteers may register at www.china-can.com to become an intern editor, assistant editor or editor."
The site is designed for "50 billion words and 35 million media files"; I'm guessing that's a British billion... so around 100 TB.
From the looks of their website, however, they're just getting off the
ground (and relearning html lessons from 1998)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/23/content_3125788.htm http://www.china-can.com/index.htm
-- SJ
These Dzongkha-speaking heads... any chance that they'll do anything on the Dzongkha Wikipedia?
By the way, since that's been noted, we might want to clean dz.wiki up (Gilst Ooli is a pagename left over from when it was squatted).
Mark
On 28/06/05, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia snagged some Bhutani coverage this week, though it seems to have been written a few months ago... A journalist writing for /kuensel online/, "Bhutan's daily news site," cheerfully noted the existence of a Dzongkha Wikipedia.
http://www.kuenselonline.com/article.php?sid=5656 http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilst_Ooli
Meanwhile the Chinese government is developing a editable encyclopedia of Chinese history, including all extant documents from before 1911. According to Xinhuanet, "Volunteers may register at www.china-can.com to become an intern editor, assistant editor or editor."
The site is designed for "50 billion words and 35 million media files"; I'm guessing that's a British billion... so around 100 TB.
From the looks of their website, however, they're just getting off the
ground (and relearning html lessons from 1998)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/23/content_3125788.htm http://www.china-can.com/index.htm
-- SJ _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
On 28/06/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
These Dzongkha-speaking heads... any chance that they'll do anything on the Dzongkha Wikipedia?
Some of them seem to; there's been a brief flurry of editing for the first time in a month...
On 6/28/05, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Meanwhile the Chinese government is developing a editable encyclopedia of Chinese history, including all extant documents from before 1911. According to Xinhuanet, "Volunteers may register at www.china-can.com to become an intern editor, assistant editor or editor."
As Fuzheado (after Magnus) alread noted: the process is something like the old nupedia process. I wonder how that will scale ... " it may take up to a century," they say. Let's hope we are all still around to see it finished.
http://www.danwei.org/archives/001877.html
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