Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-10 Thread M. Williamson
2011/3/9 Thomas Dalton : > I have no objection to people using this list for announcements and > Q&As, but if people are wanting proper discussion then I strongly > recommend sticking to English. I have no objection to people having discussions on this list in any language, and I'm not sure why yo

Re: [Foundation-l] LangCom meeting report

2011-05-17 Thread M. Williamson
Thank you for the informative message. If it is possible, may I be made an observer on the langcom list? Do I need to apply for such a position? Thanks 2011/5/17 Milos Rancic > As you should know, thanks to Wikimedia Germany, Language committee had > its first real-life meeting from May 13th to

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-23 Thread M. Williamson
When words are from the same root, the same character is generally used regardless of modern pronunciation. In Traditional Chinese, phonetic elements are mostly based on older pronunciations which might not make sense in all modern Sinitic languages; sometimes in Simplified Chinese these are replac

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-23 Thread M. Williamson
essimistic. Of course, Wikipedia exits in many > languages, but many Wikipedia language versions are still quite small > and of low quality, typical encyclopedias-to-become, but still no > really useful encyclopedias by now. > Kind regards > Ziko > > > 2011/5/23 Milos Rancic : &

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-23 Thread M. Williamson
Clearly, at least at this point, it is probably unreasonable to target any languages with less than 100,000 native speakers; of course, if there is community interest I think they should get Wikipedias, but the 70 million or so human beings who speak languages with less than 100k speakers are likel

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-26 Thread M. Williamson
Having a test project doesn't necessarily mean community interest; having a test project with dozens of articles might indicate that. In many cases, users with no relation to the language (in particular, User:Jose77) have started test wikis with text all in English for hundreds of languages. So the

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-27 Thread M. Williamson
I'm not sure any of us had the stated intention of helping you. What, exactly, were we expected to be helping you with? 2011/5/26 Virgilio A. P. Machado : > Thank you guys. I knew you wouldn't let me down. > You outdid yourselves. On this illustrious > mailing list where from «you know who» all th

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

2011-05-31 Thread M. Williamson
Professor Machado: This is an interesting allegation, I would be quite interested to see some examples of this taking place. -m. 2011/5/31 Virgilio A. P. Machado : > Now that my attention has been drawn to that section, I wonder if > that explains why the academic projects were not welcome and t

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