--- Luiz Augusto lugusto@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/2/07, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
I also agree with this, and see no need to merge
the
process into Incubator.
Birgitte SB
Sorry, but I don't see anyone trying to move text units from the [[:oldwikisource:]] to the [[:incubator:]]. I think that [[:oldwikisource:]] is working as a great place for texts with no sufficient users to make a new community getting hosted *and* a Incubator-like for new Wikisource wikis and no one (neither I) is trying to change it.
I have proposed at
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Wikisource:Language_domain...
move the *requests* for new Wikisources to the Meta-Wiki, due to the current delay to open any new wikis using a simple vote. I'm dejected to see someone requesting to open a new wiki since the July 2006 and up today voting on it [1], awainting to start to work on a specific wiki.
[1]
Due to past conversations I have had with people involved with incubator, I read the comment about "merging processes" differently than you did. Perhaps I am mistaken, and that is not what was meant in this case.
However there are people who have been clear with me that they think [[:oldwikisource:]] should be completely merged into [[:incubator:]] in the long term. Personally I don't like to see the process of starting new Wikisources taken over, because outside people simply fail to appreciate the reality of wikiSOURCE, where the content already exists in tangible form (with corresponding dialects and orthographies already pre-determined for each edition of a text). Processing requests at meta has led to people being encouraged to start a new wikisource for a variation of a language without ever trying to work in the existing wiki (or even talking to them). [1] The people I have spoken to from incubator also seem unable to see the intrinsic differences between a wikisource and a wikipedia. From what I can see they are planning a one-size fits all process, with no differences in handling based on projects. Despite the fact that there are strong arguments for having one Wikisource where there are several Wikipedias with related languages. If plans have changed, or I am simply mistaken, please correct me.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Ancie...
The full page seems to have been lost on meta, so I linked one of my contributioins there
Birgitte SB
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