[Wikisource-l] future of the Wikisource

[Luiz Augusto]

A few minutes ago I've received these two messages:

From: bugzilla-daemon at mail.wikimedia.org <bugzilla-daemon at mail.wikimedia.org
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Date: May 6, 2007 4:12 PM
Subject: [Bug 6982] Request for setting up tamil wikisource site
To: lugusto at gmail.com

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6982


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------- Additional Comments From river at attenuate.org  2007-05-06 19:12 UTC
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Tamil wikisource is undergoing discussion at langcom, <http://
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Tamil_Wikisource>.
please
re-open this bug when a decision is reached to create it.

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From: bugzilla-daemon at mail.wikimedia.org <bugzilla-daemon at mail.wikimedia.org
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Date: May 6, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: [Bug 7855] Creation of nds wikisource
To: lugusto at gmail.com

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7855


river at attenuate.org changed:

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On 5/4/07, jkbwiki <jkbwiki at web.de> wrote:
>
>  Just some remarks to the art of discussion and decision here.
>
> In March/April there were some mail concernig the wikisource, the future
> of wikiosurce (multilingual, wikisource.org) and new subdomains.
>
> Although I work in wikisource.org since 2004 and although I am an admin
> there since 2005, I saw and I read some points the first time in my wiki
> life. There was no word of announcement or discussion of this matter on the
> pages of the multilingual wikisource, never, although it concerns this
> domain.
>
> So, the proposals, that everything what has to do with new subdomains
> should be put in the hands of somebody else, but not the wikisource.
>
> Nice. The multilingual wikisource did in the past manage the creation of
> new subdomains, after we had a contact to the users there. Now, there is a
> not nearly specified proposal, some incubation domain will do. Fine. Fine,
> if it works.
>
> But doesn't seem to work. The discussion ended, nobody concerns, nobody
> tries to do something. And the Tamil wikisource request and another one are
> still waiting for a solution. Since months, since nearly one year. Do you
> think that the users are so strong and so good prepared fot the shit here,
> that they will wait another half a year and then start to work again??? I am
> sure, we lost not only some users, but we lost two subdomains in the last
> four weeks.
>
> I tried to keep the domain of wikisource.org running in the past, but now
> I must resignate. Some people announce some new fine ideas, they take the
> competences away, without saying who will do it in the future. I am not like
> to act there as a idiot, I am not one.
>
> You will have to recognize, that such acting leads to a loss of users and
> subdomains. You will have to recognize that the wikisource subdomains have
> to learn something else than the wikipedia or wictionary subdomains.
> Obviously, yaou have to recognize this in the future.
>
> It is not a good feeling to me to write these sentences after three years
> of wotking here, but the development of the WS did hurt  me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -jkb-
>
>
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