On Jan 15, 2008 4:10 AM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
All requests are treated in the exact same way, with no discrimination or exception. The Spanish project was created before the language subcommittee existed, so it was obviously not subjected to the same rules.
I understand about Spanish Wikiverisity. But you didn't give the explanation why you set up Greek Wikiversity whose localization was less processed (and still now) than Japanese Wikiversity. So I think my argument on inequity is still valid.
For this issue, I would rather like Language Community to response, not its committee member who are however speaking on an individual basis.
This is also why the Japanese wikis now exist without localization, but they would need to do it anyway! Were their wiki created now, they would have a partially English interface and need to translate it locally; then the next wiki would need to do it again. Translating the localization files saves work and time later, and allows Japanese editors to use a Japanese interface on any wiki.
That was exactly what I/we did on several Japanese wikis: for me Japanese Wikiquote and later Japanese Wikinews.
Marco brings up one wiki that flourished without meeting these requirements (it predates them), but I can give a very large number of examples of projects that *didn't* flourish.
As such a person I would give you two examples of inactive wikis with full localization at a certain moment which anyway didn't help them per se. I don't oppose the possibility there are any relevancy between project activity and localization but strongly doubt there is any consequence. Through my experience, if a project become active or not is rather a user population issue (i.e. they get a community or not) and not localization issue.
Cheers,