[Foundation-l] Following the conventions: seperating Wikisource

[GerardM]

Hoi,
It is exactly to find out if it is an "otherwise accepted language" that the
language committee wants to make sure that the content is coded in this
way.. I would not be surprised when all the content in wikisource.org that
is NOT English is not coded correctly in the first place.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 6/6/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> GerardM wrote:
>
> >Hoi,
> >When Wikisource is having content in languages that did not pass the
> process
> >for recognition for a new language for MediaWiki and for a Wikimedia
> >Foundation project, and when this content is restricted to
> >http://wikisource.org, there seems to be at first glance not much that
> the
> >language committee has to deal with. The problem however is that a code
> that
> >is used for such a language has to exist. There is also a need that the
> meta
> >data uses the right code. This allows for the information to be
> recognised
> >for the language that it is.
> >
> Having the right code for an otherwise accepted language is a problem on
> a completely different level from having a project in the language.
>
> >Also when a request is made for a language in Wikisource, it is can not
> be
> >separated from the status that a language has in the wider Wikimedia
> world.
> >An example are the two Belarusian languages that do not find it possible
> to
> >collaborate. The only reason why there are two wikipedias is because the
> >be-x-old data existed before the new policies came into effect. This
> would
> >not have been accepted as a separate project on its own merits.
> >
> Perhaps Wikisource would find a way to accomodate both language forms in
> the same project.  The original Belorussian texts were written as they
> were written.  Texts in the new form are not likely to go into the
> public domain very soon.
>
> Ec
>
>
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