[Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Interesting but off topic. At issue is that many parts exist that are known
to make MediaWiki more usable. We need to make MediaWiki more usable and all
it takes is to apply the lessons learned by applying the results of the
usability studies performed by UNICEF.

We only have to learn about their findings and apply them to our projects.
What is needed is for us to consider what it would take to make this happen
on our projects. It does include several opportunities; the templates for
new articles allow us to promote structure on articles, the functionality
itself promotes participation. I do argue that our projects will benefit
tremendously from this low hanging fruit.

I would like to see the lessons learned by UNICEF as soon as possible
because it will give our MediaWiki software a new lease on life.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2008/12/1 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:25 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Serbian isn't a launguage. It's a dialect of the Central South Slavic
> > diasystem and one of the projects I had in mind when I brought up
> > smaller languages becoming POV forks.
>
> Saying that something is not a language is a strong claim. Talking
> about one standard language as a dialect is a non-scientific claim.
> Serbian language is one of the standard varieties based on
> Eastern-Herzegovian dialect of Shtokavian diasystem. Also, it is not
> based on Central South Slavic diasystem, because standard Serbian
> language is not based on Torlakian, Chakavian nor Kaykavian.
>
> > You also need to considered the argument beyond wikipedia. The ratio
> > of scientific papers published in english compared to any eastern
> > European language (except to an extent Russian) is very considerable.
> > This is not something wikipedia can do anything about. Even if such
> > languages do get more extensive beyond a certain point they will be
> > relying on English references.
>
> Yes. This is true.
>
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