On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:39:12 -0700, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Second of all, I think it will be a good idea to
divide efforts
between a Wikipedia and a Wiktionary. There are many similarities
between the projects, but on Wikipedia you can give much more
information about a subject, while in Wiktionary you give information
about the word itself (ie pronunciation, translations, definition).
Perhaps it would be a good idea to get a "head start" with the
Wiktionary until you have a "working lexicon" of 500 words, and then
split efforts and start more on a Wikipedia.
I disagree; in my opinion it would be better to start just one of the
two, whichever the organisers are more interested in. There's just a
few people working on the language, and it might be some time before
there are more. Splitting efforts in a situation like that seems to me
to be detrimental to the project. Of course this does not mean I would
be in favor of blocking one or the other, I just want to advise the
Amis Wikipedians/Wiktionarians against it.
As another issue, is any of you experienced in Wikipedia? If not, it
would be good to have someone from another Wikipedia (the Chinese one
seems to be the obvious choice), preferably a sysop and preferably
someone with passive knowledge of Amis, to help in setting up your
wiki. And of course an announcement should be made in the Chinese (and
perhaps Min-nan? I don't know enough about the Taiwanese linguistic
situation to judge that) Wikipedia and Wiktionary when this is
started.
Andre Engels