Alex Brollo wrote:
I work mainly into it.source, but I often try to work
a little bit into
other projects too for a number of reasons. I find unknown
templates,
tools, policies, all from them very interesting; and I do too some effort
to import them into it.source, but it's difficult, since diversity grows
daily and some good ideas are very difficult to implement into different
contexts.
This sounds like the same ENORMOUS problem that Wikipedia has. Wikipedia in
each language has thousands of templates and scripts and gadgets, they are
different, they are not synchronized, they are not internationalized, their
code is not properly reviewed, and so on. This is not to say that they are
bad - contrariwise, they are wonderful, they are developed by skillful
people, and the very fact that they exist shows that they are needed. But
it does complicate the development of extensions that are supposed to work
in all wikis, and it complicates usual wiki authors' cross-language work.
I'd love to get that fixed for both Wikipedia and Wikisource, but it will
be a big challenge.
Originally Wikisource was split because right-to-left Hebrew texts didn't
work with the left-to-right only interface. This was a technical issue and
it was mostly resolved in 2011 by SPQRobin, so maybe today it wouldn't be
split for this reason. But what's done is done.
What is really needed is defining the actual problems and addressing them.
Going back to Mulitlingual Wikisource may or may not be the solution, but
the problems must be defined first.
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2015-11-27 17:03 GMT+02:00 Alex Brollo <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com>om>:
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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