Wikitechians,
It's exciting that the Hungarian Wikipedia folks will be first to deploy in Wikidata, and the Italian Wikipedia people may be the 2nd!
What's the deployment plan, for languages 10 through 285 (number of Wikipedia languages) through 7,358 (per "The Ethnologue"), particularly in terms of developing community email lists (graduate students?)
Is there a Meta Wiki deployment page for all languages, paralleling this - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Deployment?
What's the current state of email lists / wiki pages for all of Wikipedia's 285 language communities? (Wikipedia is now in 285 languages, as of August 2012 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Wikipedia).
In this deployment process, would a 7,358 language-deep, universal translator, or security questions, in TOR, for example, as part of Wikipedia, influence deployment in any heretofore unforeseen ways?
World University and School is planning for all 3000-8000 languages, each as a wiki page to begin: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages. WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free, online degrees planned.
World University and School also plans to deploy in Wikidata, and in all 3,000-8,000 languages, each a wiki, subject page / school, to begin. WUaS bases this range on "The Ethnologue" - http://www.ethnologue.com/ - which now says they have 6,909 languages, whereas Wikipedia says they have 7,358 languages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue. WUaS also plans to facilitate the development of an universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - building on Google Translate and others.
So many languages, and as wikis, is wondrous ... :)
Hungarian and Italian Wikipedia rock!
Cheers, Scott / Aphilo
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Result: after some explanations we have 26 supporters in addition to 3 initiators/starters, and no opposers. (22 of them in the first 24 hours.) As I wrote earlier, this is an enthusiastic community. So huwiki is looking forward to test Wikidata. :-) Let's do it!
That is really great news. Thank you! I'll keep you posted as soon as we have more news about the next steps and dates.
Cheers Lydia
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