[Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

Marcus Buck me at marcusbuck.org
Mon Aug 23 16:43:14 UTC 2010


  An'n 23.08.2010 18:31, hett David Gerard schreven:
>> It'll be multilingual in the same way as Meta or Commons or our other
>> cross-language-border projects.
>
> So, English then? ;-p
Yep, de facto English ;-)  I don't like it and I spend much time to 
improve the usefulness of Commons for non-English speakers, but 
improving the participation oppurtunities for non-English folks on our 
multilingual projects is a different task with enough complexity in itself.

Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki 
like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum 
(<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum>) instead of the 
Village pump. That will happen on a datawiki too and probably these 
subcommunities will focus on their respective regions, e.g. German 
speakers will focus on maintaining the town data for places in Germany, 
Austria, Switzerland etc.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox



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