First, sorry for missing exactly the same suggestion on oldwikisource's scriptorium. I didn't see it among the sea of "Tech News" posts.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:57:35, Thomas Tanon <thomaspt@hotmail.fr> wrote:

> I support too. It will allow oldwikisource to share the same configuration as language-based

> Wikisources. But we should really ask sysadmins if it's possible.
>
> Feel free to open a bug [1] asking if it's possible to move oldwikisource to mul.wikisource.org

> and to add it in the "wikisource" site group.
>
> The second step would be to open a formal vote on oldWikisource.
>
> Thomas

Well, I've asked the initial question as bug 62717. I don't file many bug reports, so hopefully that came out correctly.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:37:32, Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you have some URLs about that. It's seems pretty illogical to me.
> On all the other wikisources, there is bilingual books (and trilingual,quadrilingual,
> etc. multilingual books). On the breton wikisource, nearly 50% of the 145 books are
> bilingual ; moving them on old/mul.ws would be a damn loss :(

No URLs that I can recall off-hand.  I just remember it in connection with something I was working on (a translation of the Domesday Book) which is almost exactly half Latin and half English. Splitting books between projects has come up in a few other cases too.

- Adam