Fully support. No creation of new sources without having a good bureaucrat and admins. See what happened with some new domains in last months - one edit a month or so.
I quess, that pages where it is not clear and where there is no language category (like Telegu, Bulgarian...) will get a category like Unclear etc. (see also http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Languages_and_categories). On this way we can see what belongs here and what belongs to a subdomain. And everybody who creates a new page without a category must be contacted. Might be we should present a sentence in red letters to the edit window.
Jan
----- Original Message ----- From: "ThomasV" thomasV1@gmx.de To: wikisource-l@mail.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: [Wikisource-l] subdomains created 3 months ago
: Three months have elapsed since the second wave of subdomains creation : by Jens Frank, and little has been done to clean the main site. : : Some subdomain admins do not even seem to be aware of the problem. : I do think, however, that we have a problem, when duplicate versions of : a text exist for several months... : : In some cases, people imported texts on their subdomains and they did : not blank the original pages, nor did they provide a list of the pages they : imported. In some cases pages have been imported using the import : function, in other cases they were just copy-pasted. Sometimes the : imported pages have been renamed and the redirect deleted, which : makes them difficult to track. : : Sometimes people only seem to have imported a fraction of the text : from the main site to their subdomain, whithout explaining the reasons : for their choice. It could be that the texts they left on the main site are : not eligible for wikisource, but how the hell am I supposed to know if I : do not speak the language? : : So far I deleted pages on the main site after checking that they were : imported. But a lot of pages remain on the main site, that ough to : belong to subdomains, and I am not able to tell whether they have : been imported or not... : : I would like to delete them, because their presence on the main : site is confusing : some occasional contributors do not realize : that a subdomain has been created, and they keep editing pages : on ws.org, and adding new pages there. : : In two words : it is a mess. : : In the future, I do not want another subdomain to be created without : there being someone in charge, who can supervise the import and : quickly delete pages from ws.org. : : For the moment, I am asking what to do with the pages on ws.org : that sould be in a subdomain. Shall we delete them preventively, : keeping in mind that we can restore them later if we realize they : were not duplicates ? : : : Thomas : / : / : _______________________________________________ : Wikisource-l mailing list : Wikisource-l@mail.wikimedia.org : http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l :