Tim Starling wrote:
People underestimate the cost involved in setting up a wiki.
Could you provide an estimate in the number of work hours? Either more could be done in automating parts of the task, or the required work on your behalf could be paid for with money that has to be collected by the community (of Klingon speakers, say) before the new wiki can be set up.
As a consultant, I have found that a good way to avoid boring work tasks is to put a price tag on them. Oh yes, I would love to fix your spelling errors -- at $10 per page or $150 per hour. :-)
The current discussions of whether or not to start new projects are tiresome and frustrating for all parties. It would be better to allow anybody to start new projects, so that the hard part will not be convincing the Wikimedia Foundation, but convincing the community to fill the new wiki with contents. Perhaps such communities should be required first to collect 250 articles (off-wiki, by e-mail) and when this is achieved, the new wiki will be started.
Lars Aronsson, lars@aronsson.se