[Foundation-l] Rodovid.org, family tree wiki, wishes to become a wiki project

[Benjamin Webb]

Talking about multilingual MediaWiki, Rodovid already has a certain level of
that implemented.

You have one user account for every language and one watchlist for all
languages. Also, because Genealogical data is facts, the database is shared
among every language, with a different language enterface. So if you add a
person in English, another person will be able to see that record in
Ukranian.

On 27/03/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aphaia wrote:
> > On 3/27/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 3/26/06, Benjamin Webb <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Even though your e-mail could be seen as critisising me, I greatly
> >>> appreciate it. Any feedback at all is useful for me. You mentioned
> having an
> >>> opinion poll. Could I start that now? The proposal has been on meta
> for a
> >>> week.
> >>>
> >> The policy for new projects states that projects must be discussed for
> >> "at least a month" before a poll is taken:
> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy
> >>
> >
> > Also, I would like to add such poll concerning with the Foundation
> > level should be grobal, hence multilingual.
> >
> > With exceptions like Wikimedia Commons which is needed to be kept as
> > unscattered, I have no reason to support any monolingual project as
> > Wikimedia ones, specially after haven seen Wikispecies and its two
> > years inactivity. Currently, I have found only English speakers showed
> > interest to the suggestion and it brought me if our grobal community
> > has interested in the idea now discussed.
> >
> > --
> > Aphaea@*.wikipedia.org
> > email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com
> Hoi,
> When it comes to multilingual projects, it is relevant to mention that
> development on Multilingual MediaWiki has started (
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki ). Your suggestion
> that Commons should stay a monolingual project is something that I have
> problems with. Currently it is only useful for people who speak English.
> When you are looking for pictures of animals or plants you have to know
> your Latin. :(
>
> As to Wikispecies, it is a great idea that came before its time. Its
> time will come I am sure. :)
>
> When Multilingual MediaWiki is "Brion ready, accepted and merged", it
> will be possible to have a genealogy project where more parts of the
> user interface can be localised. One of the fun aspects of genealogy is
> that you will find what parts of a family comes from what parts of the
> globe; it is therefore important to have a user interface that allows
> for people from all over the globe to collaborate. :)
>
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
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