Maybe it is "fine" but I am afraid it is only "fine" for majority
(that
speaks English or at least one major European language). As an example,
note, that there is very few discussion in Chinese in Village pump despite
there is a lot Chinese users there and many of them do not speak English.
It is very difficult to operate on Commons for users that speak only Thai,
Urdu, Bashkir, Hindi or another not highly populated language.
Also there are attempts to discriminate users who do not speak / do not
understand English.
IMO, there is high risk that merging all wikisources would marginalize
minorities or people who are not multilingual.
The other issue is (I noticed it in plwikisoure) that few users come to
wikisource because they feel bad in large wiki communities (plwiki in our
case). (I don't know if there are similar cases in otner wikisources, but
likely.) In case, we decide to merge projects they will leave.
So disadvantage here is the risk of losing users that we do not have too
many.
However, there are also advantages of unification and closer cooperation.
Question is: will they predominate?
Ankry
As to the communication problems well WD and Commons
are doing just
fine, it's no problem really. I am actually not an active contributor to
WS but I always had a feeling that I'd perhaps be one if it was not
split. It's easier to work in big project with all infrastructure ready
and big community to help you, in small on the other hand you have to
face the same 1 or 2 people or the time and personal issues may come in
the way of participation.
I am not a person to have enough energy to run a major RfC in order to
have the WSs joined (as you can see I even failed to show my points in a
structured way) but if such a person shows up I'd gladly support such an
initiative.
--Base
On 27.11.2015 17:03, Alex Brollo wrote:
I'm deeply convinced that splitting
wikisource projects into variuos
languages has been a mistake.
Is anyone so bold to imagine that it is possible to revert that mistake?
Or, are we forced to travel along the/ diabolicum/ trail?
Alex
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