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Von: Yann Forget
Gesendet: 07.06.07 20:58 Uhr
An: discussion list for Wikisource, the free library
Betreff: Re: [Wikisource-l] Following the conventions: seperating Wikisource

Hello,

Birgitte SB a écrit :
> --- Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Other ideas say that Wikisource project is special
>> somehow that some of the languages will never be big enough (text
>> collections, contributors
>> etc...) to deserve its own domain or there will
>> never be enough community for it..and because of that they are
>> better placed in one
>> place (I don't really see the objection of making
>> new sub-domains or wikis, does it cost?)
>
> Yes is costs. It costs a large amount of labor for
> each separate subdomain to be montiored by admins.
> Currently texts in language which have not gathered a
> community around them (and some never will) are
> montiored from a single list of recent changes. Any
> problems readers encounter are able to be answered by
> the community that has developed to look over these
> texts. Subdomains are only good when a community to
> inhabit them exists.

Yes, that's the most important point. The community should be the main
factor for a decision to separate a language into a subdomain. Technical
issues should not.

> BirgitteSB

Best regards,

Yann
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