Svip wrote:
2009/8/21 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>om>:
Just to clarify, are you saying that in your
view, too
few messages are translated to Danish, or are you
saying that too many messages are translated to the
Danish language?
Unfortunately; neither. Messages that shouldn't be translated to
Danish, have unfortunately been, while messages that should have been
translated to Danish, haven't.
But that's without mentioning the horrible state of the localisation
in general: Wrong context translations, just wrong translations and
many spelling errors.
The Danish Wikipedia itself is in a pretty bad state to. Too many
articles on it are close to laughable, and you can often find better
articles on Danish subjects on the English Wikipedia than the Danish
one.
I find your comments very significant. This suggests to
me quite strongly that it may in fact be that emphasizing
the *quantity* and *completeness* of localizations, over
the _quality_ of the same, can be a double edged sword.
The thought also is hard to escape, that there is a definite
"late mover disadvantage" to the creation of a wikipedia.
Anyone who has experience of the growth process of a
LOTE-wikipedia (to borrow a four-letter acronym from a
different free content context -- 'Language Other Than
English'), will inevitably recognize the feeling of seeing
something better written on the en-wikipedia than at
their own language version, and as the en-wikipedia
matures, this disadvantage is not going away, or losing
effect, sadly.
I could write more on these subjects, but in the interest
of briefness, choose not to, but will instead mull my
thoughts over and reflect...
I my mind, the combination of the poor localisation
and the bad state
the Danish Wikipedia is in, scares many Danish editors off.
And it should be mentioned, that many Danes have a pretty good
conception of English, and the interest in Danish is unfortunately
lessen as well.
I am trying to do my part, by translating the pages on Meta wiki and
the Strategy wiki to Danish.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen