[Foundation-l] Re: Wikiversitophicatunivium
Anthere
anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed May 11 16:38:35 UTC 2005
Okay...
Since everything is taking care of, the weather is gorgious, my lawn
mower repaired, I go take care of my garden :-)
Ant
Erik Moeller a écrit:
> Elisabeth Bauer:
>
>> So far, we have one rather successful encylopedia, a media repository
>> which could use better organization,
>
>
> Kennisnet may be interested in helping with that, I am in talks with the
> relevant people.
>
>> a dictionary which is in desperate
>> need of software modifications,
>
>
> I'm working on that.
>
>> a quote collection with unsolved legal
>> problems,
>
>
> Headache. Personally, I never wanted Wikiquote to be a Wikimedia project.
>
>> a biology wiki which is boycotted by all wikipedian biologists
>> I know,
>
>
> :-) Gerard and I have talked a bit about this; once we have a Wikidata
> prototype out in the wild, perhaps we'll be able to find funding to
> create a Wikidata schema for Wikispecies.
>
>> a news site whose participants are in the process of learning
>> journalism (with very varying success if I look at the latest headlines
>> of german wikinews)
>
>
> I won't pat myself on the back too much, but I think we're doing well in
> terms of monitoring the progress of the international editions and
> highlighting successes and weaknesses.
>
>> a dead memorial wiki for sep 11
>
>
> Yes. Please convert into static HTML ASAP. If nobody else feels up to
> the task, I'm willing to help.
>
>> a wiki for developing teaching resources where I'm always disappointed
>
> > when I look into
>
> Yes, Wikibooks is another project which is suffering from the software
> not addressing all of its needs, particularly the modularization of
> individual books.
>
> > a source repository which duplicates the efforts of project
>
>> gutenberg.
>
>
> A bit harsh; the coming language subdomain split is a good short term
> solution to encourage more translations (I don't think it's the best
> approach, but that's another story), which is probably the great
> potential of Wikisource.
>
>> Isn't this enough to work on?
>
>
> Yes, for the time being. Our existing projects should stabilize before
> Wikisophia is launched. That doesn't mean we shouldn't think about it or
> work on grant applications and cooperations which will benefit all our
> projects.
>
> Erik
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