On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/6/28 stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com:
Note: Why not make it a general "dres-l" and let all language wikis
submit?
Because multi-lingual mailing lists don't work. I don't want my inbox full of emails written in languages I don't understand.
Hm. They do work. In fact wikipedia-l was a kind of international mailing list, though in reality most people who deal with intnl issues write in English anyway.
And this is to suppose that after some short time of usage, there wouldn't be some language forking going on? Seems natural that when intl usage gets too high, maybe 18%, then we can start forking.
There is also a neat little tool now called Google Translate - I use a little toolbar button in ffox that does it in one click (much better than the extensions that try to do it all, actually). Not perfect, and not usable for certain things, but usable anyway to read things and to send terse, grammatically formal and concise messages.
-Stevertigo