Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/20/11 10:11 PM, とある白い猫 wrote: > Certain projects are bound to loose active contributors. Projects like > Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies or even Wiktionary do not have the same > growth curve as a general purpose encyclopedia. These tools have serious > competition as well. Statistically l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
2011/9/21 とある白い猫 : > Yes but isn't multilingual wikisource more of an incubator rather than > exclusively for historic texts? It would make more sense to separate the two > as inherently the two tasks have different goals in mind. Multilingual Wikisource is a place for any texts which do not have

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The language policy does not allow for Wikipedia in extinct languages. However, a Wikisource for the old Greek languages does make sense. When such a Wikisource would be created, the user interface would by default not be in modern Greek because more people study old Greek outside Greece then

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread とある白い猫
Yes but isn't multilingual wikisource more of an incubator rather than exclusively for historic texts? It would make more sense to separate the two as inherently the two tasks have different goals in mind. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) 2011/9/20 John Vandenberg > 2011/9/21 M. Williamson :

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-20 Thread とある白い猫
Certain projects are bound to loose active contributors. Projects like Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikispecies or even Wiktionary do not have the same growth curve as a general purpose encyclopedia. These tools have serious competition as well. Statistically looking at numbers is unwise unless you are g

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/13/11 6:11 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > I am not a Wictionary contributor but I was never able to understand why > we have Wictionaries in different language, though a big part of those seem > to be translations on other languages, and they overlap. Would it not be > advantageous to hav

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term culturalarchive?

2011-09-20 Thread Phil Nash
Kim Bruning wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:24:37PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> Hello Fae, >> >> There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it >> self-evident to preserve. > > That reminds me of something O:-) > > Perhaps something like this? > > We, the wikimedia movement,

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-09-20 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:24:37PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello Fae, > > There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it > self-evident to preserve. That reminds me of something O:-) Perhaps something like this? We, the wikimedia movement, hold these truths to be self evi

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-20 Thread Fajro
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Thoughts? > I am against anything that validates the image filter. I still believe that the filter is against the mission of the foundation. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@

[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-20 Thread Milos Rancic
I am serious now, please read below as a serious proposal. I was talking today with a friend about the image filter, and we came to the possible solution. Of course, if those who are in favor of censorship have honest intentions to allow to particular people to access Wikipedia articles despite th

[Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, (Sorry for cross-posting this.) In just two days, Wikimedia Sverige is once again going to participate at the Gothenburg Book Fair, which is the second largest book fair in Europe. Around 100 000 people come there every year from almost all of our target groups. This year, we have prepare

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
2011/9/21 M. Williamson : > Holy ancient thread revival, Batman! > > This seems like a good idea... but in the case of Wikisource, wouldn't that > already be covered by multilingual Wikisource? Yes, extinct/historical languages are collected by the multilingual Wikisource project. http://wikisour

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread M. Williamson
Holy ancient thread revival, Batman! This seems like a good idea... but in the case of Wikisource, wouldn't that already be covered by multilingual Wikisource? 2011/9/20 とある白い猫 > I think we may want a "historic texts" wikisource/wikibooks particularly > for > texts in now extinct languages. So

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread とある白い猫
I think we may want a "historic texts" wikisource/wikibooks particularly for texts in now extinct languages. Something sort of like commons for historic texts for all extinct languages. I do not know something like this was proposed before. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On Fri, Apr 18, 2008

[Foundation-l] Wikizine Techflash - Year: 2011 Week: 39

2011-09-20 Thread Walter Vermeir
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