On 10/3/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I'd like to ask HT if all the chinese wikimania core team could join the wikimania mailing list, even though it may be that some of you discuss issues in chinese only. It is important (imho) that at least some non chinese be involved in the organisation, as it will greatly enrich the process.
Even before the winner city was decided, I was contacted by a member of Chinese team to help inviting speakers from Japan. I understood this request they would have liked me as non Chinese to be involved program organization. I believe some other non Chinese editors had a similar contact.
As Transcom member, I would like also to know who of Chinese team will be interested in translation coordinations. Personally I think it would be better one of Chinese team will care for translation in general and one additional coordinator collaborate with him or her. Since there are many good translators in Chinese speaking community, not only zh-en but also zh-de, zh-ru and so on (I don't know zh-fr translator(s) yet though), it will make a sense some language versions are generated directly from Chinese versions in case Chinese is the original. And then native speaker copyediting will be helpful. Translation and website setting up began on the mid March in past two conferences, we have enough time find such a coordinator, but if Chinese team have a clear plan, it will be nice for us all to know about that.