[Foundation-l] Multilingual Wikibooks

[Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)]

Hello,

There is a request for a multilingual Wikibooks at <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikibooks_Multilingual
>. I would like some input from the community about how to process it,
and whether or not it is a good idea.

I personally think this matter should be decided with Wikibooks and
Foundation community consensus, because it is not a language subdomain
as the language subcommittee normally processes (it would be a
language-agnostic wiki for coordination and translation), it would
overlap with existing Wikibooks subdomains and the Incubator, and it
would be a major change in how the Wikibooks project is organized.

There are five multilingual projects to date, only two of which are
for projects divided by language: the multilingual Wikisource and Beta
Wikiversity. The other multilingual projects are Meta-Wiki,
Wikispecies, and Commons.

(This message, and any other by any language subcommittee member, is
an entirely unofficial personal comment.)

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)