[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
We have at this moment a language request and its first project is a
Wiktionary. There are exceptions to the rule :)
Thanks,
      GerardM

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Pitjantjatjara

On Jan 17, 2008 12:06 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2008 6:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 16/01/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > One idea that still kicks around in my head is the idea that a
> > > language's first project should not be a "wikipedia" or a "wikibooks",
> > > but instead an undifferentiated, general-purpose wiki that can be used
> > > to encompass all the various projects. For instance, you start out
> > > with a project on which you can write articles/books/quotes/news/etc.
> > > Once you reach certain goals, you will be allowed to differentiate
> > > certain projects: A wikipedia, then a wikinews, a wikibooks,
> > > wiktionary, etc. In this way, speakers of a foreign language have the
> > > capability to write books/articles/news/quotes/dictionaries/etc all at
> > > once. Think of it like an incubator for a single language.
> >
> >
> > Indeed. Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary and Wikisource were created
> > because the English Wikipedia community at the time decided those
> > things didn't go in "an encyclopedia." Another community may well
> > decide otherwise.
>
> I'm thinking more along the lines of a community that wants to write a
> dictionary, and then decides that the articles that are springing up
> are not "dictionaryish" enough for wiktionary. We shouldn't make the
> assumption that every new language wants to start with a wikipedia, or
> that the members of one language will be all interested in doing the
> same thing at first.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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