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
Usage statistics alone, I would agree with you.
But stats can tell so much more than just what you get from usage stats.
For instance:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm (be
sure to scroll all the way to the right).
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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 have
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
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
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.
Absolutely true. In the last year or so i've been using English,
Dutch, French, Spanish,
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 have just one Wictionary (as we have just one Commons)?
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
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 have
It's possible. The interface part is even quite easy.
The hard part is defining a data model to contain all the words in all
languages, with definitions in all languages, with morphology tables,
etc. Something like this is slowly being done at www.omegawiki.org and
there are other projects,
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
It's possible. The interface part is even quite easy.
The hard part is defining a data model to contain all the words in all
languages, with definitions in all languages, with morphology tables,
etc. Something like this is slowly being done
I prefer WMF caring about the currently hosted sister projects, instead of
adding more.
2011/9/13 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
It's possible. The interface part is even quite easy.
The hard part is defining a data model to contain all
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
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
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
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