Gerard, that seems like quite a bit of money, I'd be curious to know what exactly that would be spent on, in detail.
2011/3/5 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > Hoi, > The Wikimedia Foundation is a five hundred pound gorilla in the field of > building language resources in the languages that have a smaller footprint > on the Internet. I am convinced that for a million Euros we can make sure > that all languages have technically a level playing field. > > I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major > improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages > we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken feed. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 5 March 2011 22:58, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 5 March 2011 21:48, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and MediaWiki is a >> volunteer >> > is a fallacy. >> > The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and >> > scripts are performing technically on a level playing field. This is not >> the >> > case and there is a lot that can be achieved with modest investments. At >> > this stage we do not want to invest in specific languages to create >> content. >> > If a language is viable and can operate on a level playing field the >> > communities will do their thing in the way that fits for them. >> >> >> Yes. The advocates of a minimal Foundation are missing the point that >> "in their own language" is an extremely good reason to spend money on >> the necessary translations and so forth. >> >> The Chapter structure is a brilliant way to get this sort of thing >> locally self-organising and not be run from San Francisco. But as Amir >> points out, this results in very patchy coverage. >> >> Really. Take the sentence: >> >> "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment." >> >> - and think of how to fund everything that implies, or to fund its >> encouragement, or to fund encouraging the funding of its >> encouragement. The WMF as it stands is *tiny* for such a goal. >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
