[Foundation-l] Wikiversity=>Wikisophia

[Sj]

On 5/9/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Lee Daniel Crocker-
> > I don't see how it's acceptable for us to agree to any conditions that
> > affect our prerogatives for software use.  We need to use whatever
> > software best suits our purposes.  WikiTeX is nice work, and we may
> > very well end up using it or something similar.
> 
> Of course we're not going to install WikiTeX if we decide that there's a
> better option, but that seems unlikely. WikiTeX is one of the most
> requested features from our users. What has been holding up its setup
> are not criticisms of its functionality, but security considerations. As
> I see it, if we do this, the Board will ask Brion, as a paid Wikimedia
> employee, to assist Peter in the security review and evaluation of

Where do users log such feature requests?  I see four people have
voted for the relevant bug, which was filed six weeks ago:
  http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792

I don't think the "paid Wikimedia employee" has much to do with this process.
Of course the person best positioned to judge security considerations may 
indeed by SPARTA^B^B^B^Brion ... 

> This makes it necessary for English language derived names like Wiktionary to 
> be localized, which then leads to confusion when you go to a domain like
> pl.wiktionary.org and end up on a site called Wikisłownik. 

This is confusing?  Hopefully not, if you know any Polish!  The Red
Cross and similar orgs seem to do just fine with translations into
many languages.  So does Wikipedia, in fact.

SJ