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[Ray Saintonge]

Yann Forget wrote:

>Hello,
>  
>
>>On 4/2/07, *Birgitte SB* wrote:
>>
>>    Due to past conversations I have had with people
>>    involved with incubator, I read the comment about
>>    "merging processes" differently than you did.  Perhaps
>>    I am mistaken, and that is not what was meant in this
>>    case.
>>    
>>
>This clearly shows the misunderstanding of what Wikisource is and what
>[[:oldwikisource:]] is meant for.
>
>Although some Wikipedias will remain small for a long time because of
>lack of contributors, some Wikisources will never get more than a few
>dozen or hundreds of pages, simply because the original content in that
>language doesn't exist. Another example is Sanskrit (a bit more than
>1700 pages) which could qualify to have its own subdomain because of the
>amount of content, but does not because of lack of contributors.
>Although we could dream to have the whole of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo
>translated in Sanskrit, the quantity of existing Sanskrit texts will
>never be more than a few thousand pages. For some other languages, it
>will ever be much less, so creating and *maintaining* a wiki for only a
>few pages is quite a waste of work and time. That's why
>[[:oldwikisource:]] exists and will continue to do so. In that sense,
>this interwiki name is also badly chosen.
>
Of course the fundamental difference is that a Wikipedia is there for 
the benefit of those who currently write in and work in that language.  
A Wikisource contains texts in its language even if it is a dead 
language.  Old English texts do not need a complete interface in Old 
English.

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