Alex thanks for that perspective. I myself was wondering if anyone counted how many entries are in the books category here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books
and then the entries for books per sister project on Wikisource. My gut feeling is that the number per Wikisource entity will be smaller, but I may be wrong 2013/6/2, Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com>: > Just to have a try: imagine to install proofread extension and to add > Index: and Page: namespaces into Commons, and to allow users to use Commons > as an optional proofreading lab. > > No more painful alignement of Authors' metadata: there is Creator > nmespace/template. > No more painful setting & aligning of book metadata: there is Book > template. > No more painful localization: there is a powerful set of localization > templates/scripts. > No more need for trick for multi-lengual books: they would be as simple as > mono-lengual ones. > > Obviously such Commons books need to be fully shared - as html rendering - > into any wikisource project, just adding a message "Work can be edited in > Commons", jus as it happens for shared media. > > Alex > > > > > 2013/6/2 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> > >> David Cuenca, 02/06/2013 02:22: >> >>> [...] specially now that projects like Wikidata have shown that it >>> >>> is possible to have both localization and centralization living in >>> harmony. >>> >> >> We're VERY far from such a harmony, or maybe I'm misunderstandind what >> you >> mean here. We don't have a true solution for the problem of a >> multilingual >> wiki, Commons' pains show it well. <https://wikimania2013.** >> wikimedia.org/wiki/**Submissions/Multilingual_** >> Wikimedia_Commons_-_What_can_**we_do_about_it<https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Multilingual_Wikimedia_Commons_-_What_can_we_do_about_it> >> > >> >> From what I recall, localisation was definitely not the reason for >> splitting. It's also wrong to assume that bringing people on the same >> wiki >> will give you a single community: you may well just lose the (senses of) >> communities and end up with a dispersed array of editors. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l> >> > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
