[Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Still wikipediocentric

[Amir E. Aharoni]

A belated reply...

Some new recent developments:

A labs environment was set up:
http://en.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

In the San Francisco hackathon work was done on this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Hackathon_January_2012/ProofRead

I plan to work on it more in the Washington DC hackathon (Wikimania).



2012/1/15 Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> I was the [[:m:User:555]], mainly active on the last years of my volunteers
> actions on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. I've left the Wikimedia
> projects mainly because the lack of energy from my side to keep trying to
> get free time to work in projects fully neglected by the Wikimedia staff,
> developers team and some volunteers in the core of the Foundaction acts.
>
> A friend told me about the http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ . I've
> checked http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrixand...
> surprise! no Wikisource wikis with blue color links! I asked myself
> random things about the [[bug:21653]] lasted for 26 months until gets
> PARTIALLY fixed and decided to check some 'Recent changes' pages and found
> this:
>
> http://pt.wikisource.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=233269
>
> Come on guys! What is the point to run a bot spamming on all wikis if the
> tests are only to the Wikipedias? Attempt of a 'politically correct' action
> to these worse guys from others projects get's 'socially included'? Like in
> the real life, those worse guys aren't in need of assistencialism [1]
> actions...
>
> Well, I don't expect any change on the Wikipediocentric actions in short,
> medium or long time (in fact the Foundation and some local chapters are
> trying to make things for the Wikimedia Commons project, but only because
> that project is the central media source for Wikipedias), this was only a
> mutter.
>
> Despite my apparently hatred on this message, I really hope that the 3-4
> extensions only enabled on Wikisources wikis don't get's any aditional bugs
> than the current ones in the new version of MediaWiki in the same intensity
> that your guys hopes that focusing in a project that only describes the
> knowledge in an encyclopedic way fully meets the
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
>
> [1] - wow, a concept from social sciences yet not defined neither on
> en.wikpedia or en.wiktionary? O_O
>
> As on all of my previous messages, sorry for my limited English skills.
> Best regards,
>
> [[:m:User:555|Lugusto]]
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