2010/2/23 Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)gmail.com>
Hello dear Gdansk team.
3) Finally (but this question is irrelevant if 2) is taken care of)
can the default language for the website be English, and not Polish?
Wikimania is an international conference, and navigating in Polish is
well... sorry, but very difficult :)
This isn't a solution, but I recently discovered it (via Pharos, thanks) and
have found it very helpful. For Gmail users, in Gmail labs (little green lab
beaker icon in the upper right-hand corner) there is a tool called "Message
translation".
If you enable it, it puts in a google translate button right in your email
for messages it detects are in a language that is not your default language.
Polish->English (and vice versa) is one of the options. I know the
translations are not very good -- the grammar is pretty awful :) -- but it's
better than nothing!
Anyway, while I agree with Del that the default language of the website and
conference should be English (at least the public facing parts), please
don't let language stop you from posting on this list or other wikimania
planning lists to plan the conference. I think everyone on
Wikimania-planning-l and this list is willing to see messages in Polish (or
any language) :) And I would really like to see more international
participation in planning, which can only happen if the conversation is held
in public places.
thanks,
Phoebe