Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi! Cool! Digs!
Howdy partner. I am investing in a company that promotes the use of MediaWiki in Native American Language Preservation programs for Wikimedia content. Close enough.
Good initiative. I'm working on use of mediawiki in Native European Language Preservation too!
When my ban is lifted on the English Wikipedia, then I will start the money flow into the Foundation -- which is what I think you meant. In the
Bans are set by communities. Foundation oversees operational issues, that supports many communities, including Native European Languages.
meantime, I work on the Cherokee Wikipedia and Machine Translation Support for the Foundations projects -- I like the folks at Wikimedia.
Great! I like them (Wikimedia people) too! I don't like machine translation though, because due to difficult ancient grammar constructs Native European Languages resist automatic conversions.
I actually even thought it would be great idea to have a special mailing list for native language preservation issues - your emails to foundation about new dumps etc don't get that much attention and does appear as a spam there. With a new mailing list you could send all your information about language preservation to interested folks like me!
Well, a lot of the pointless conversations on that list are spam to me -- I guess its a matter of perspective. Danny and Brad are both very interested in what I am doing and have been sending me grammar references and providing assitance, and spreading the reach of languages if the next horizon for the Foundation, not the folks who all rush to respond to Jimbo's emails with endless kiss-up all the time. David Gerard is a hard worker and several other folks, and Sabine and Dr. Benjamin were real great folks to hook up with there, so it's been helpful for all I think.
I am not interested in the Wikia competition and blasting someone as spam because they are a perceived competitor (which I am not -- Wikia is no competition at all). :-)
Jeff
Best regards, Domas