[Wikipedia-l] Re: mail WikiSpecies

[Michael Snow]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>If we create a new project, say htt://www.wikispecies.org (to simplify) 
>>and that this project is multilingual, then we will also probably have
>>http://en.wikispecies.org
>>http://fr.wikispecies.org
>>http://zh.wikispecies.org
>>etc...
>>    
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>Huh? Wikispecies is *specifically* supposed to be a language-neutral database.
>Subdomains mean different databases so I'm a bit perplexed. Perhaps you are
>thinking about the language that the interface is in and having the subdomains
>trigger that?  
>
Quite so, if Wikispecies (or, for that matter, Wikicommons) generates a 
push for different language domains, that would seem to me like a sign 
that the project is off track. These projects should be 
language-independent resources for the language-specific projects like 
Wikipedia.

--Michael Snow