[Foundation-l] Re: Wikiversitophicatunivium

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed May 11 16:38:35 UTC 2005


Okay...


Since everything is taking care of, the weather is gorgious, my lawn 
mower repaired, I go take care of my garden :-)

Ant



Erik Moeller a écrit:
 > Elisabeth Bauer:
 >
 >> So far, we have one rather successful encylopedia, a media repository
 >> which could use better organization,
 >
 >
 > Kennisnet may be interested in helping with that, I am in talks with the
 > relevant people.
 >
 >> a dictionary which is in desperate
 >> need of software modifications,
 >
 >
 > I'm working on that.
 >
 >> a quote collection with unsolved legal
 >> problems,
 >
 >
 > Headache. Personally, I never wanted Wikiquote to be a Wikimedia project.
 >
 >> a biology wiki which is boycotted by all wikipedian biologists
 >> I know,
 >
 >
 > :-) Gerard and I have talked a bit about this; once we have a Wikidata
 > prototype out in the wild, perhaps we'll be able to find funding to
 > create a Wikidata schema for Wikispecies.
 >
 >> a news site whose participants are in the process of learning
 >> journalism (with very varying success if I look at the latest headlines
 >> of german wikinews)
 >
 >
 > I won't pat myself on the back too much, but I think we're doing well in
 > terms of monitoring the progress of the international editions and
 > highlighting successes and weaknesses.
 >
 >> a dead memorial wiki for sep 11
 >
 >
 > Yes. Please convert into static HTML ASAP. If nobody else feels up to
 > the task, I'm willing to help.
 >
 >> a wiki for developing teaching resources where I'm always disappointed
 >
 >  > when I look into
 >
 > Yes, Wikibooks is another project which is suffering from the software
 > not addressing all of its needs, particularly the modularization of
 > individual books.
 >
 >  > a source repository which duplicates the efforts of project
 >
 >> gutenberg.
 >
 >
 > A bit harsh; the coming language subdomain split is a good short term
 > solution to encourage more translations (I don't think it's the best
 > approach, but that's another story), which is probably the great
 > potential of Wikisource.
 >
 >> Isn't this enough to work on?
 >
 >
 > Yes, for the time being. Our existing projects should stabilize before
 > Wikisophia is launched. That doesn't mean we shouldn't think about it or
 > work on grant applications and cooperations which will benefit all our
 > projects.
 >
 > Erik





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