Hello, Some templates ought to be universally available but if that is the heart of the problem then that does not settle a call for a merge because the split brought other benefits and the template problems will be fixed eventually.
Are there other problems associated with the split which have not been addressed and which bother you? On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Alex Brollo wrote: > > 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 them into it.source, but it's difficult, since diversity grows > daily and some good ideas are very difficult to implement into different > contexts. > > This sounds like the same ENORMOUS problem that Wikipedia has. Wikipedia > in each language has thousands of templates and scripts and gadgets, they > are different, they are not synchronized, they are not internationalized, > their code is not properly reviewed, and so on. This is not to say that > they are bad - contrariwise, they are wonderful, they are developed by > skillful people, and the very fact that they exist shows that they are > needed. But it does complicate the development of extensions that are > supposed to work in all wikis, and it complicates usual wiki authors' > cross-language work. > > I'd love to get that fixed for both Wikipedia and Wikisource, but it will > be a big challenge. > > Originally Wikisource was split because right-to-left Hebrew texts didn't > work with the left-to-right only interface. This was a technical issue and > it was mostly resolved in 2011 by SPQRobin, so maybe today it wouldn't be > split for this reason. But what's done is done. > > What is really needed is defining the actual problems and addressing them. > Going back to Mulitlingual Wikisource may or may not be the solution, but > the problems must be defined first. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2015-11-27 17:03 GMT+02:00 Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com>: > >> I'm deeply convinced that splitting wikisource projects into variuos >> languages has been a mistake. >> >> Is anyone so bold to imagine that it is possible to revert that mistake? >> >> Or, are we forced to travel along the* diabolicum* trail? >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> 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 > > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 l...@bluerasberry.com
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