On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Love it or hate it, Facebook as a way of linking together Wikimedians across languages is a big plus (eg. projects like #100wikidays).
Ooh, man, you're pushing my hot button topics! I proposed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149666 for the dev summit; my "big picture" vision here is that we start using our machine translation tools to tie our projects more tightly together, so we feel more like "one project aided by a bunch of babel fish" and less like "a thousand separate projects, each in their own tower".
So, bringing it back to chat -- and perhaps Shadow Namespaces ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149666) -- one goal might be to build discussions into our platform in a way which can be cross-platform, with integrated machine translation aids to allow near-seamless multilingual conversations, thereby bridging barriers between our communities. Of course the vandalism and anti-harassment and user filter tools would need to be multilingual in the same way... --scott