--- Lightning lightning@chaos-productions.com wrote:

Shouldn't wikipedias that have not been started be moved to the new software? I mean, there is nothing to change so it seems to me, right now would be the best time to do something like that since there is no content and It'd be easier to start them in the new software rather than in the old and then convert them.... there seems to be a lot of them.. look here:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_list_of_language_wikis_avai

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Also can some pass this on to the international list, i suspect they might have some more views on this, but i really dont need the traffic from that list in my inbox.

Lightning,

Must say, some of your emails are fresh air...

I am sure Brion and others will help moving the next wikis, but they need time to do everything. Only 2 hands each.

Taking the content of the sevilla serveur is for sure an idea...I would say it would probably not be very diplomatic right now :-) If you want to know more about the fork, you'll have to go to the archives of the int list, and archives from this list for the last month or so.

Right now, the int list is mostly a duplication of the main list. Most people put the two lists in the to: field, unless we forget. But if you wonder about int issue, you should check that list anyway (go tho the archives if you want to avoid cluttering). Also, I would say if you want to make something known from the int list, post to the int list, don't ask others to do for you, that's inefficient. You may register to the int list, but say you don't want to receive mail from it from what I remember.

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Lightning wrote:

Shouldn't wikipedias that have not been started be moved to the new software? I mean, there is nothing to change so it seems to me, right now would be the best time to do something like that since there is no content and It'd be easier to start them in the new software rather than in the old and then convert them.... there seems to be a lot of them.. look here: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_list_of_language_wikis_avai lable

Also can some pass this on to the international list, i suspect they might have some more views on this, but i really dont need the traffic from that list in my inbox.

I'll repeat what I said on the talk page:

Yes, but volunteer labor is scarce and setting up a few dozen wikis that aren't being used and will have to be converted again the next time we make a major software change* isn't my idea of fun at the moment either. Any language that you want to use, mention it and I'll move it over. Anything else will wait until it's gotten around to.

For example, Xaos recently made noises about the unused -- and unusable -- Korean wiki, where the old software wasn't set up to handle an appropriate encoding. I set up a blank ko.wikipedia.org configured for Unicode support, and localization is ongoing.

*What I refer to here is the oft-suggested ability to combine views of multiple languages (and the meta wiki) into one interface; for instance, 'Recentchanges' optionally showing changed articles in all the languages you work in plus the meta discussion; being able to select the interface language separately from the content language; having a single login work across all languages without having to separately set up accounts & log in all the time. This may require merging everything together into a single database, and the less databases to deal with at the time, the smoother it'll go.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)