Hello,
Some templates ought to be universally available but if that is the heart
of the problem then that does not settle a call for a merge because the
split brought other benefits and the template problems will be fixed
eventually.
Are there other problems associated with the split which have not been
addressed and which bother you?
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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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