Wiktionary is useful; perhaps you're referring to my comments, which were not about Wiktionary at all. Wikiquote definitely does not belong as a sister project. Maybe it is a "shining beacon" in the cesspool of internet quote sites; well, there are lots of things the rest of the Internet does poorly, that doesn't mean it's automatically the WMF's job to create a project to do it better.
2011/9/13 David Richfield <davidrichfi...@gmail.com> > In the discussion of the Wikinews fork (may they thrive), I picked up > some comments predicting the death of Wiktionary and Wikiquote, > referring to the low numbers of regular contributors. > > I don't think that means the projects are dying: I'm an infrequent > contributor to both of those projects, and every time I go there, > they're better. Wikiquote is continually improving in coverage and > accuracy, and Wiktionary has recently gotten new features (e.g. a > separate citations tab) and is also going forward. People are > checking recent changes: last time I edited Wiktionary, I was adding > citations to an article where the current list was in reverse > chronological order, and I was too lazy to change it, thinking > "someone else can fix this". Before I got to the third citation, > someone had fixed the sequence. > > The fact that progress is slowing isn't a sign of impending death. As > long as the wikis don't stagnate to the extent that they start to get > taken over by spammers and trolls, I'm not going to hold a wake. > > As for Wikiquote being one of our less useful projects, that's > possibly true, but only because the other projects are so awesome! > The web is awash with crap quotation websites of with the same > misattributed quotes being incestuously copied around - Wikiquote is > one beacon of sanity in that whole mess. > > -- > David Richfield > e^(πi)+1=0 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
