Sergio1956
Hi wiktionary professionals !
I have some questions:
Am i right if i suppose that the number of visitors and/or new entries and/or changes of the wiktionary grow exponentialy ? How do you solve this problem ? Does your hardware also grow exponentialy ? :-) I would like to see a grafical curve as a picture to see the growth of visitors, new entries, ...
Is there ideas to distribute a wiki on several servers ? I would like to participate to e.g. wiktionarys in french or german, perhaps host a wiki (french and/or german), what should i do? Wer haftet wenn copyright verletzt wird, oder wenn strafbare Inhalte nicht schnell genug entfernt werden ? (I must ask this question in German because it is to difficult in english for me)
- (translated by Polyglot: Who will act when copyright infringement is found, or when questionnable content isn't removed quickly enough?)
(Es gibt in Deutschland gesetzliche Bestimmungen wie Impressum usw...) thank you for helping me, merci de bien vouloir m'aider...
- I'm afraid there are not all that many professionals here. We are all volunteers with some knowledge of/about languages. I think we have to simply wait a bit for Wiktionaries in other languages to happen. They will happen eventually, I guess. It's not clear to me what exactly we are waiting for. It's nice to hear you want to sign up to father a German or a French wiki. Hosting it won't be necessary. I think the founder of the Wikipedias wants to keep them where they are.
- About the copyright infringement question. I think that if we remove the content in question the moment we are notified about it, that will be fast enough. I don't see why a delay would occur that would make us liable. Everybody can remove content by editing a page, so basically anybody can take care of it. It would of course be better to avoid the issue on beforehand. If you find some definition that comes straight from Duden, you change it. Translations can't be copyrighted according to Eclecticology.Polyglot 20:15, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- Actually, translations of words can't be copyrighted. Translations of texts can. Even if you breach the original copyright with a translation, you still have copyrights in your translation. It can be very tricky for dictionaries. Eclecticology
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- Who can answer those questions: Am i right if i suppose that the number of visitors and/or new entries and/or changes of the wiktionary grow exponentialy ? How do you solve this problem ? Does the hardware hosting wiktionary also grow exponentialy ? :-) I would like to see a grafical curve as a picture to see the growth of visitors, new entries, ... Is there an history of this page :
I've seen some graphs of the kind you mean in relation to Wikipedia, but I confess to technical incompetence on this matter.
Exponential growth is understandable, but we are still considerably smaller than Wikipedia. There has been much said in the mailing lists recently about improving the hardware. There are already over 300,000 articles in the Wikimedia family of sites, and a dedicated core of people are hard at work dealing with some of the scaling problems. Eclecticology 22:06, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
You're right it has been very slow. Wikipedia responds much faster today. User:Brion VIBBER is the one that knows about this sort of thing. I'm not a techie. Eclecticology 22:45, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)