Exactly! Why not use such a situation of political discontent as motivation
for localisation?!?
The only reason that there’s Russian displayed in Ukrainian wiki products is
that these items haven’t been translated yet.
Fwiw,
Oliver
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From: Gerard Meijssen [mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 February 2014 11:01
To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
Subject: Re: [Langcom] Deleting of fallback for a language
Hoi,
Given the political situation in the Ukraine, it is obviously a reaction to
the current regime and the associated discontent. It does however not negate
the fact that most people still know Russian. It does however not negate the
fact that all Russian will go away by translating the software.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 February 2014 08:51, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
@ Michael, Karen: Naturally it is better if it is all translated into the
language itself, but I don't see a reason why one should ignore a community
consensus.
It might also be asked whether a fallback introduced after community
requests can or cannot be removed in the same way.
What can be said however is that a decision on Wikipedia alone could not be
enough since also others use MediaWiki. It could maybe be disabled only for
uk.wp.
We should also not forget Langcom doesn't have to say anything about
MediaWiki development and configuration; developers do this.
Am 05.02.2014 <tel:05.02.2014%2021> 21:54 schrieb "Bohdan Melnychuk"
<base-w(a)yandex.ru>ru>:
Hi,
Ukrainian Wikipedia community holds vote for disabling Russian fallback
language for Ukrainian interface language
(
https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія:Кнайпа_(пропозиції)#Зміна
<https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1
%96%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%B0_%28%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D
0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%96%D1%97%29#.D0.97.D0.BC.D1.96.D0.BD.D0.B0_.D0.BC.
D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B3.D0.BE_.D0.BF.D1.80.D0.B8.D0.BE.D1.80.D1.96.D1.
82.D0.B5.D1.82.D1.83_.D0.B4.D0.BB.D1.8F_.D0.BE.D0.B3.D0.BE.D0.BB.D0.BE.D1.88
.D0.B5.D0.BD.D1.8C> мовного приорітету для оголошень). Could langcom give
procedural advices for how it shall be done the right way (e.g. I think
there should be links to this vote from portal at TWN and in other Ukrainian
Wikimedia projects' village pumps). We have cases when such our requests
were not done by developers in spite of community decision so this time we
need to know what way we should follow to done it finally.
Sincerely,
User:Base
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