On 20 April 2014 04:46, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd say that Scots Gaelic could be a good test (Wikimedia UK help
needed!). It's a language with ~70k of speakers and if it's possible
to achieve 100 active editors per month, we could say that it could
somehow work in other
Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with parentheses.
It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and
doesn't have this problem. Thanks for the attention.
בתאריך 20 באפר 2014 02:17, מאת Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm:
On a second thought, do we want
Amir, this is the first time that one's been brought up. I'll chat with
OIT about potentially changing moving forward.
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Amir E. Aharoni, 20/04/2014 08:39:
Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with parentheses.
It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and
doesn't have this problem. Thanks for the attention.
Your suggestion works against the built-in assumptions of
Hi Milos, at the same time when you are concerned about the collection /
preservation of thousands of languages, I will briefly introduce a
project that currently takes place in Austria together with the Austrian
Academy of Sciences. This project has the same goal direction, which you
mention,
Am 20.04.2014 08:38, schrieb geni:
On 20 April 2014 04:46, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd say that Scots Gaelic could be a good test (Wikimedia UK help
needed!). It's a language with ~70k of speakers and if it's possible
to achieve 100 active editors per month, we could say that it
On 20 April 2014 09:32, Hubert Laska hubert.la...@gmx.at wrote:
What do you want to say with that? That it is thus no longer necessary,
gaelic to lead as an example? Wikipedia does´nt end at national borders!
Wikimedia UK however does. There is also the issue of changing political
status.
Milos Rancic, 20/04/2014 05:46:
Why should we do that? The answer is clear to
me: Because we can.
Can we? There is no evidence that our minuscule wikipedias have had any
influence whatsoever on unofficial languages like, say, the alleged
lumbard (lmo) dialect.
It's probably more effective to
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014, geni wrote:
On 20 April 2014 09:32, Hubert Laska hubert.la...@gmx.at wrote:
What do you want to say with that? That it is thus no longer necessary,
gaelic to lead as an example? Wikipedia does´nt end at national borders!
Wikimedia UK however does. There is also the
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 20/04/2014 08:39:
Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with
parentheses.
It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and
doesn't have this problem.
imo there are a whole bunch of organizations and projects much better aimed
and developed towards this question; I'd rather map them and contact the
most developed ones instead of reinventing the wheel.
Cheers,
Balazs
PS: This because we can reasoning is very very thin btw. (source?)
2014-04-20
2014-04-20 6:46 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
There is the question: Why should we do that? The answer is clear to
me: Because we can.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a lot of people who support the general idea
more than I do, but precisely because of that I believe that we must be
On 20/04/14 11:50, Liangent wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 20/04/2014 08:39:
Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with
parentheses.
It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014, Isarra Yos wrote:
Removing the affiliation from the name itself and adding it as a group
would allow the mediawiki to format the name and group in a way that
makes sense for the given language. Keep to the parentheses for english
and such, do other things for ones where
First, I want to respond to the structural questions, among them some
which I didn't mention:
In short, we can because we have organizational infrastructure,
capable to work with local people and bring them to edit Wikipedia and
other Wikimedia projects. That's not the rocket science.
Working
Hi Isabella,
Great news! Congratulations to all of you :)
In Argentina we are planning to build up a fundraising strategy this year.
Is there somewhere we can take a look to the project?
Thank you so much and congrats again!
2014-04-19 6:35 GMT-03:00 Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com:
Interesting thoughts. I have a few brief comments, and will engage further
(on Meta, perhaps) later:
0. because we can is indeed a very poor reason to do anything. We are
also probably the only global network that can ensure complete coverage of
all Pokémon characters in 100 languages. That's
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
0. because we can is indeed a very poor reason to do anything. We are
also probably the only global network that can ensure complete coverage of
all Pokémon characters in 100 languages. That's far from proof that we
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
4. What does interest me, as a grantmaker, is where to draw the line
between the Rapa Nui end of the spectrum and languages that, with some
active promotion, could well become useful and much-needed reference
sources in
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Anna Torres a...@wikimedia.org.ar wrote:
Hi Isabella,
Great news! Congratulations to all of you :)
In Argentina we are planning to build up a fundraising strategy this year.
Is there somewhere we can take a look to the project?
While the WMID team puts online
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