[Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 19:59:06 UTC 2005


Kaixo Pablo,

I personally have tried to set up mediawiki software for this but have
run into problems in all cases.

It is however definitely a good idea.

Mark

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:54:18 +0100, Pablo Saratxaga
<pablo at mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:24:44PM -0800, Felix Wan wrote:
> 
> > Mark, once again I appreciate your support.  I don't think we will get
> > the blessing of the community to start a Cantonese Wikipedia soon, but
> > it does not mean that it cannot be done later.
> 
> My advice will be that you (or someone else interested in a Cantonese
> wikipedia) just get the mediawiki software and install it on a server
> somewhere to try out, so it can be seen if the project is viable or not;
> if it is, then moving it to wikipedia servers would be no problem, if it
> is not, at least we will know.
> 
> That is how Min-nan and Walloon wikipedias started; for the Walloon one,
> I wasn't myself sure it would work or not, that was actually the reason
> why I tried it on my own machine first; and I had almost given up after
> 2-3 months, when someone else appeared and revived it.
> When there were some 1.000 articles moving it to wikipedia was no
> problem (even in the extreme case were the database couldn't be
> imported, copying the articles by hand wouldn't be an impossible task
> either).
> Yes, the Walloon wikipedia is still small, and will continue to be
> small, as the total population of speakers is small (about 600.000)
> and there is absolutely no official support for the language nor
> any presence on mass media; however, with some 1.000 articles a year it
> is a valuable source of information, particularly about Walloon and
> Wallonia related topics (articles about language grammar, personalities,
> villages, rivers, existing and past litterature, etc), and the number of
> users is still growing, slowly, but growing, which means there is
> interest in it.
> 
> What I mean is, for a first try, when only limited traffic will happen,
> even hosting it on a private adsl connection is enough, a small computer
> with a standard GNU/Linux distribution is able to run the software;
> so while there is need of somme consensus and approval to be hosted
> by the wikimedia foundation and use its infrastructure; anybody
> can start its own wikipedia-like server at home.
> And then, depending on the results, an official merging with wikipedia
> could be asked.
> 
> 
> --
> Ki ça vos våye bén,
> Pablo Saratxaga
> 
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