During the recent Wikisource Conference in Vienna, need for global gadgets, templates and module was discussed and already it has been reported in Phabricator ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1238 ). So someday, the problem will be solved.
To me, it is not at all a good idea to return back to multilingual WS for this reason. The diversity of the language projects make Wikimedia movement unique which includes Wikisource as well. Every language and scripts has its own unique problem, which can not be generalised at all. Besides, if some WS community choose to return back to multilingual, I think, that's possible, but not every WS community would want or like to do that.
Maybe it is "fine" but I am afraid it is only "fine" for majority (that
speaks English or at least one major European language). As an example,
note, that there is very few discussion in Chinese in Village pump despite
there is a lot Chinese users there and many of them do not speak English.
It is very difficult to operate on Commons for users that speak only Thai,
Urdu, Bashkir, Hindi or another not highly populated language.
Also there are attempts to discriminate users who do not speak / do not
understand English.
IMO, there is high risk that merging all wikisources would marginalize
minorities or people who are not multilingual.
The other issue is (I noticed it in plwikisoure) that few users come to
wikisource because they feel bad in large wiki communities (plwiki in our
case). (I don't know if there are similar cases in otner wikisources, but
likely.) In case, we decide to merge projects they will leave.
So disadvantage here is the risk of losing users that we do not have too
many.
However, there are also advantages of unification and closer cooperation.
Question is: will they predominate?
Ankry
> As to the communication problems well WD and Commons are doing just
> fine, it's no problem really. I am actually not an active contributor to
> WS but I always had a feeling that I'd perhaps be one if it was not
> split. It's easier to work in big project with all infrastructure ready
> and big community to help you, in small on the other hand you have to
> face the same 1 or 2 people or the time and personal issues may come in
> the way of participation.
>
> I am not a person to have enough energy to run a major RfC in order to
> have the WSs joined (as you can see I even failed to show my points in a
> structured way) but if such a person shows up I'd gladly support such an
> initiative.
>
> --Base
>
> On 27.11.2015 17:03, Alex Brollo wrote:
>> 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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