Wikilanguage
| Wikilanguage | |
|---|---|
| Status of the proposal | |
| Status | rejected |
| Reason | no support. Pecopteris (talk) 05:29, 20 August 2023 (UTC) |
| Details of the proposal | |
| Project description | It would be a place to document (and preserve) the earth's languages. Let's set French as an example. The page (and subpages) would document all of the grammar rules and detailed descriptions of the language's use in a standardized, organized way, and maybe link to Wiktionary since it already documents much of French's lexicon (but Wiktionary lacks the definitions of many languages with a small number of speakers). Wikibooks could work for this type of project, although that seems better for reader-friendly descriptions and lessons, and Wikilanguage would be more of a database or record. |
| Is it a multilingual wiki? | It would be best if there was multiple language versions, but only parts of the pages would need translating. Edits to the database should sync to all of the language versions of Wikilanguage, while descriptions should be manually translated. |
| Potential number of languages | One language per wiki. (not including the languages documented) |
| Proposed URL | en.wikilanguage.org (for the English edition) |
| Technical requirements | |
| New features to require | If the project requires any new features that the MediaWiki software currently doesn't have, please describe in detail. Are additional MediaWiki extensions needed for the project? |
| Development wiki | incubator.wikimedia.org (possibly) |
Proposal
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edit- Doesn't Wikipedia already do that?! --Username142857 (talk) 04:03, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
I have searched Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and various other websites. They do have descriptions about the earth's languages, including history, basic grammar, and common phrases. Wikibooks even has lessons. But I have a new idea that I'm very enthusiastic about, and that I couldn't find anywhere on the Internet. Imagine a database that documents languages in their entirety. This will allow the construction of reader-friendly language learning resources for other projects, and it will allow language preservation and documentation for endangered or extinct languages.
In short, Wikilanguage intends to be an extensive language record and database.
Whether this info could be suited for Wikibooks is uncertain, although Wikilanguage is intended to be more of a documentation than a language learning resource (well, it could, but it wouldn't be formatted like a book).
--Sir Beluga (talk) 01:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Sir Beluga: A similar proposal here was imported to v:en:Portal:Wikilang. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks. I do notice that the pages in v:en:Portal:Wikilang don't cite sources in any of the pages that I have seen, which makes me uncertain about the reliability of the content. Is it possible to add references to specific pieces of information there, much like how citing sources works on Wikipedia? --Sir Beluga (talk) 02:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Wikiversity allows for citations and you can make them in the same way as at Wikipedia but it also allows for original research, which Wikipedia does not. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:56, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks. I do notice that the pages in v:en:Portal:Wikilang don't cite sources in any of the pages that I have seen, which makes me uncertain about the reliability of the content. Is it possible to add references to specific pieces of information there, much like how citing sources works on Wikipedia? --Sir Beluga (talk) 02:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- As already said by Koavf, a very similar and more complete proposal already exists: Wikilang, but was implemented (temporarily, I guess) in English Wikiversity. And regarding your proposed name, Why a name in English when you are trying to create a project about every language of the world? --Zerabat (discusión) 23:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
- Wasn't that one rejected? Username142857 (talk) 04:06, 2 December 2022 (UTC)