'ambitious' or not?
I think it depends on the resource we have and when we want to achieve that. The initial email by Josh has indicated only what we want to achieve.
* In Thailand, we have a number of volunteers capable of translation from EN->TH but relatively smaller number on TH->EN. * In English speaking countries, it is much easier. Perhaps, they could help other non-English speaking countries on translation into English?
In principle, this project should be warmly welcome by readers in many countries. In Thailand, the AEC - "Asian Economic Community" is discussed everywhere. Also, there was a big announcement about "Australia in the Asian Century" - http://asiancentury.dpmc.gov.au I can see high demand from the reader side. However, many of our contributors still do not take it into account.
Cheers, Taweethaも
On 13 August 2013 01:39, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
20 isnt really that ambitious, the results are measurable irregardless of it being 1 or 100 though I suggest an initial 20 articles that are already on en plus 5 that arent for each language community participating so as to ensure that theres sufficient work to build the momentum the worse thing to happen would be for keen people becoming idle to quickly, losing interest and moving off to other projects, the lists dont need to be expanded until they are being worked through.
On 12 August 2013 20:16, Josh Lim josh.lim@wikimedia.org.ph wrote:
Well, to be fair, we don't have to plough through the entire list in three months. We could segment the list so that one block can be done within three months, then another block, then another block, etc. Either way, we can tweak this so that it's doable, but we should make sure that this is a high-impact project, hence the ambitious ceiling.
Josh
On Aug 12, 2013, at 8:07 PM, Jack LEE jacklee@smu.edu.sg wrote:
Hi,
On the list archives -- OK, though honestly I'm not sure whether I'm prepared to plow through all the archives.
On the cultural exchange programme -- 20 articles per country seems really ambitious, especially if the point was to have some tangible results within three months. I mean, let's say only China, South Korea and the Philippines nominate 20 articles each. That means our friend from Israel who offered to translate these articles for the Hebrew Wikipedia will have 60 articles to translate. I would suggest about two to three articles for a start, and no more than five per country. Finish these first, and then nominate some more.
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