Gerard, this statement surprises me. Why was the foundation involved in the localization of Freecol, a game with little or no historic information (compared with other historic games such as europa universalis)?
kind regards, Teun On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hoi, > When you consider the Wikimedia movement to include translatewiki.net, we > have already connections with games. We localise Freecol. While not > everybody likes virtual realities, many do. As there is always a good > reason > to say no, there is typically also a good reason to say yes. I would > welcome > the suggestion that we branch out to alternative ways of involving people. > We are about bringing knowledge to everyone, virtual reality is as valid an > approach as for instance facebook. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 6 May 2010 20:00, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:40 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Doubtful. Why a few turn based and real time strategy have > > > historically spread information MMORPGs have not. Freeciv might be a > > > better target if you want to try that. > > > > The point is that this is an engine for virtual reality, while it is > > MMORPG, too. And unlike Second Life, the platform is free software > > which anyone would be able to install. Integrating Wikimedia projects > > into this framework should be priority as in five to ten years, this > > will be the most dominant form of using Internet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
