[Wikipedia-l] Re: mail WikiSpecies

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 17 05:50:12 UTC 2004



Michael Snow a écrit:
> 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...
>>>   
>>
>> 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


Please read the answer I already provide in my last email to this list.

Ant





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