Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Mathieu Stumpf Guntz, 29/11/2015 18:57: What about having both central and local versions? I mean, for community stuffs localization is clearly a big pro, and those who are more interesting to get extra-localized works could go to the central repository which would gather all localized

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Alex Brollo
There's a unique feature of wikisource: anyone can contribute, even if he *doesn't know at all the language of the text that it is editing* (it is sufficient to recognize the characters of that language). It would be a little bit painful, but I could proofread an hungarian text, finding and fixing

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Ankry
> Mathieu Stumpf Guntz, 29/11/2015 18:57: >> What about having both central and local versions? I mean, for community >> stuffs localization is clearly a big pro, and those who are more >> interesting to get extra-localized works could go to the central >> repository which would gather all

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Luiz Augusto
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > (...) > > Unfortunately, for the time being, we hare scattered communities with no > software support whatsoever: we don't have a Proofread page for > Right-to-left languages, just imagine how much time it would

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Ankry
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Andrea Zanni > wrote: > >> (...) >> >> Unfortunately, for the time being, we hare scattered communities with no >> software support whatsoever: we don't have a Proofread page for >> Right-to-left languages, just imagine how much time it

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Andrea Zanni
In theory, I agree with Alex: in an ideal world, we would have tens of developers supporting Wikisource (paid by the WMF, by the chaptes, by GLAMs), we would have many rich communities, and we could surely imagine a new structure of all our websites would that allow us to store books in the same

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Asaf Bartov, 29/11/2015 14:40: One significant advantage of per-language Wikisources is that the interface language is appropriate That's a bug, as well: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58464 I agree it's shameful that WMF doesn't fix the most fundamental bugs which make collaboration

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Luiz Augusto
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Ankry wrote: > > What about two multilanguage Wikisources? One for RTL languages, another > > for LTR languages. > > ... and the third for some Asian scripts: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60729 ? > > And maybe a separate one for

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-29 Thread Mathieu Stumpf Guntz
Le 28/11/2015 14:26, Alex Brollo a écrit : Thanks for interest. I work mainly into it.source, but I often try to work a little bit into other projects too for a number of reasons. I find unknown templates, tools, policies, all from them very interesting; and I do too some effort to import