That's the same I have been thinking.

It does not make sense to split it. Besides while for Wikipedia we have Belarussian Wikipedia in official and tarashkevitsa orthographies in wikisourse that would be one project. Russian Wikisourse hosts tests in pre-1918 (or whatever exact year) orthography. Ukrainian Wikisourse has texts which use unique orthography. I'll repeat myself, in case of WP that would all be different projects.

Besides it does not make bit sense to have la.ws in Latin for discussions since people can proofread stuff without actually being able to speak la.

Another thing in la.ws there's a book which is half Russian half Latin. It would fit multilingual ws just perfectly but now it looks weird. There are lots of such bi or more lingual books in the world.

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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