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 place, and at the same time have different village pumps and interfaces and gadgets etc.
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 take to redesign a MediaWiki for being a multilanguage, unique digital library, in which anyone can contribute. I try to be more concrete and think about smaller goals we can achieve right now: maybe, in few years we can rediscuss this :-) Aubrey On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 some scannos. A small contribute, but a valuable one. On the > contrary, I can't contribute at all to any other hungarian project. > I could too apply some basic formatting to the same, incomprehensible > hungarian text, but only using standard wiki markup, or css/html, that are > *universal > languages*. I could do most of needed work using shared templates and > scripts, without any knowledge of the hungarian language. > > This uniqueness of wikisource (only shared by images and other media into > Commons) has been underestimated IMHO. > > Alex > > 2015-11-29 14:48 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 harder, even when they've been known for a decade >> AND software is available to fix them. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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