On 11/29/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
* Name :
babel.wikimedia.org ?
* Main Page : a list of languages by, say, # of native
speakers/readers [1], with prominent links to other views (by
language-cluster, by geographic region, by article-count, by reader
popularity...), information on translators & translation, and language
statistics [2].
I think that a list in such an order would be confusing without any
soirt of qualification.
Indeed. Maybe a dimensional-slider showing a number of views, across
the top, would be best. There are many useful ways to view a list of
hundreds of languages.
* Content :
All localizable MediaWiki strings, in 200+ languages [3].
Portals for each language, describing work being done to develop that
language, with portal-content in a few core language + the lang in
question. All localizable custom strings for Wikimedia projects, in
those languages. Key strings and messages (such as site-wide notice
templates) which are used regularly and needed in every language.
The main problem with that would be: how many people are going to
visit? Many people who have translated the interface or some other
similar work at a Wiki would need to know that this Wiki existed, and
further, they'd have to have incentive to come.
This would ideally be more immediately gratifying than other ways to
do such translation; with helpful statistics also udpated as one
works. And there should be simple upload functionality; at least a
"send a text file to this email address and we'll load in your
existing work" -- and it would be seeded with the current interface
translations.
SJ