[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Do I understand that you want something like a "Wikicompendium", a resource
that would be particularly geared towards the least resourced languages ??
What you can do is have a wiki with namespaces for particular types of
information. You may also want to read/comment on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Providing_information_when_there_is_little_or_none,
it describes many of the concepts that could apply.

This year is the UNESCO Year of the Language. When we set up a project like
this, we are likely get a lot of appreciation for this !!

Thanks,
    Gerard

On Jan 17, 2008 12:19 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would be thrilled with a Wikisource in Pitjantjara. This demonstrates
> the
> > language even better. I can also imagine that making stories available
> for
> > everyone and not for just an "ivory tower" would provide a great
> argument to
> > use a Wikisource.
>
>
> Exactly. Wikipedia is famous, but an encyclopedia in the restrictive
> Wikipedia sense isn't the first answer for everyone. A general
> compendium (encyclopedia, dictionary, source and quotes in one) might
> be. There's lots of ways to do something useful in that language :-)
>
>
> - d.
>
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