On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Johan Jönsson jjonsson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Philippe Verdy verdy_p@wanadoo.fr wrote:
The Tech News is intended to tech-capable users, yes, but they are acting as relays/ambassads to explain to other people, and they will create presentation documents and have a didactiv activity. Being able to speak a common language but understandardable one for everyone is a must for these news that in fract don't enter in lot of tricky details (and that are in fact read by more people than what you think, even if they are not developers). Anyway even if you speak English on this list not everyone on Meta speak it (otherwise these news would not need to be transalted at all !)
And tech developers are not necessarily the best to speak about how to spek non technical English that are more related here to the organization itself (when we speak about the "Board"). Don't be elitist: these news are intended to be read by the world, including those not reading English. For that reason we should avoid "jargon" as much as possible (and even many technical terms have transaltions in MediaWiki because it is also intended to be used by non-English communities, where English is also undesirable and very unlikey to be understood correctly: we are in the area of usability of the software).
So no, I don't support you too limited POV.
Hi Philippe,
I don't really disagree with anything I say,
... you say. Sorry.
(In hindsight, I disagree with a lot of things I've said, of course.)
//Johan Jönsson --