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(a)aronsson.se
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