I think we may want a "historic texts" wikisource/wikibooks particularly for texts in now extinct languages. Something sort of like commons for historic texts for all extinct languages. I do not know something like this was proposed before.
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, we're not discussing Latin, are we? They already have every > project besides Wikiversity, as far as I know, so there is no need to > discuss approval of Latin projects. > > Mark > > On 18/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoi, > > If that is all you want to discuss, the status quo is that Ancient > Greek has > > been denied. I do not want to discuss Ancient Greek only. If that is > all we > > are discussing, I am done talking. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Stop saying Latin, we already have a Wikipedia in Latin. We are > > > discussing the denial of a Wikipedia for Ancient Greek. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > On 17/04/2008, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) > > > > <pathosch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Further, I've painstakingly followed every thread in this > > > discussion, > > > > > and I have not seen any strong argument for allowing languages > > > nobody > > > > > uses natively. Wikimedia wikis exist to make the sum of human > > > > > knowledge available to everyone, not to practice or preserve > > > > > languages. > > > > > > > > > > I think the argument that they act as a common language for > scholars > > > > > of the ancient language is not valid; we are not a forum for > > > academic > > > > > exchange. > > > > > > > > > > > > You have to remember that "everyone" includes people who consider > > > > written-only languages a part of their intellectual sphere. If > > > > Wikimedia was around 500 years ago, would we deny Latin for purely > > > > ideological reasons, even though it was very widely used in > > > > literature? And though that use has declined greatly for Latin > and > > > > similar classical languages, I do not think we can say that such a > use > > > > is dead, nor can we at all predict the future course for such > > > > languages. > > > > > > > > And is it not true that certain topics are best researched in > certain > > > > languages? If one were to collect writers from around the world > to > > > > write an encyclopedia article on medieval ecclesiastical history, > > > > based on the most relevant and important sources, would not the > > > > optimal language for collaboration be Latin? And if one were to > write > > > > an encyclopedia article on early 20th century artificial > languages, > > > > would not the optimal language for collaboration be Esperanto? > > > > > > > > Surely such articles, written in one context but translated into > many > > > > other languages, would be very valuable to all of our Wikipedia > > > > editions. > > > > > > > > Not that I agree with Gerard's specific proposal, but the case for > > > > Wikipedias in written-only languages is quite clear to me. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Pharos > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
