2007/3/27, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, The reason why they did not have translated interfaces is because nobody bothered to set up the message files. The accepted policy of the language committee requires them.
What is being questioned here is the validity of this policy. Erik stated that if you cannot get someone to be bothered to set up the message files, it is reasonable to expect you cannot setup an encyclopedia either. Mark now answers that it has been done a few times. So that removes one argument. Apparently, now the reason that it is policy is that the committee has decided it is. Which is a rather lame reason in an open organization as the Wikimedia foundation is (I think) hoping to be.