[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Jan 16, 2008 6:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/01/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One idea that still kicks around in my head is the idea that a
> > language's first project should not be a "wikipedia" or a "wikibooks",
> > but instead an undifferentiated, general-purpose wiki that can be used
> > to encompass all the various projects. For instance, you start out
> > with a project on which you can write articles/books/quotes/news/etc.
> > Once you reach certain goals, you will be allowed to differentiate
> > certain projects: A wikipedia, then a wikinews, a wikibooks,
> > wiktionary, etc. In this way, speakers of a foreign language have the
> > capability to write books/articles/news/quotes/dictionaries/etc all at
> > once. Think of it like an incubator for a single language.
>
>
> Indeed. Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikisource were created
> because the English Wikipedia community at the time decided those
> things didn't go in "an encyclopedia." Another community may well
> decide otherwise.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a community that wants to write a
dictionary, and then decides that the articles that are springing up
are not "dictionaryish" enough for wiktionary. We shouldn't make the
assumption that every new language wants to start with a wikipedia, or
that the members of one language will be all interested in doing the
same thing at first.

--Andrew Whitworth