I strongly support Adam's idea, and I add that a mul-wikisource could the perfect site to collect best coding/formatting standards and ideas, scripts, modules and templates  to share them; this could be a great help for minor wikisource projects and an incouragement to KISS and to standardize practices for the major ones.

Really, my personal dream would be a unique, multilanguage wikisource just as there's a unique, multilanguage media container: Commons, and an unique, multilanguage container for structured data, Wikidata, for identical reasons; but this - I presume - can't be realized any more. What can be realized is, to remove any discouragement to upload into oldwikisource books in any language, to add a mul prefix so that books can be freely interlinked and to encourage to upload there multilanguage books. 

Here: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Multilanguage_works I told about some time ago. 

Alex brollo


2014-03-13 22:37 GMT+01:00 Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com>:

2014-03-13 22:26 GMT+01:00 Adam Morgan <wikisorcery@gmail.com>:

>
> I've been wondering: is there any benefit in actually getting oldwikisource moved to the "mul" language subdomain?  Also, how hard would this be?  Would it be more effort than is worth making (or worth requesting that someone else makes, anyway)?

It sounds like a good idea (and I think it has been already discussed somewhere) but I don't know about the technic part/feasibility.

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> There have been some objections to hosting a bilingual book on English Wikisource

Do you have some URLs about that. It's seems pretty illogical to me.
On all the other wikisources, there is bilingual books (and trilingual, quadrilingual, etc. multilingual books). On the breton wikisource, nearly 50% of the 145 books are bilingual ; moving them on old/mul.ws would be a damn loss :(

> Mul.ws could operate as more than just an incubator

Oldwikisource is already more than just an incubator ;)

Cdlt, ~nicolas

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