[Foundation-l] Re: Wikijunior - Wikispecies, Mk 2?

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> ..... We have the one highly
> successful project, and a second one coming along nicely in
> Wikisource. It's still got a long way to go, but it doesn't have the
> problems with disuse that Wiktionary and Wikibooks have. I do think we
> should concentrate on improving the ones we have, but some of these
> projects, such as Wikinews, are likely to be considerably easier to
> contribute to (as is the case with WP and WS), which would make them a
> more viable solution than some of our current projects.

I very much agree with the above. 

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A big reason I think that Wikibooks and and Wiktionary have not taken off is
due to a lack of very important software features; 

1) the ability to search within and easily create new pages for individual
books for Wikibooks 
3) database support and cross-wiki templates for Wiktionary. 

-- mav


		
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