Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention on the Translation Extension for Mediawiki, since 2 years now, community members ask to improve this extension by adding the possibility to select the original language. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35489
We are in a movement where the knowledge exchange is a primary concern, we have a really good tools to facilitate the translation of the documentation, but today we are still obliged to first translate "manually" in English before being able to use the Translate extension.
I’m not a Tech guy, I try to read the bug's page linked before, and the only message I can get from is « you, non English speakers, are not our priority ».
The ability to translate in multiple language the documentation created by non English speakers is a major challenge, we need to make it happen more often.
Everyday I heard French speaker saying that they do not belong to the Wikimedia Community because it’s all in English/all for English, I do not pretend that improving the Translate extension will solve this issue, but it could be a little step forward.
thank for your attention
Charles
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It is weird that, for example, chapters' pages on Meta should be written in English and then translated into native language -- according to current logic.
I agree with Charles, this change would be a step forward. Sure, translators-l will also agree.
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2014-08-14 16:43 GMT+03:00 Charles Andrès charles.andres.wmch@gmail.com:
Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention on the Translation Extension for Mediawiki, since 2 years now, community members ask to improve this extension by adding the possibility to select the original language. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35489
We are in a movement where the knowledge exchange is a primary concern, we have a really good tools to facilitate the translation of the documentation, but today we are still obliged to first translate "manually" in English before being able to use the Translate extension.
I'm not a Tech guy, I try to read the bug's page linked before, and the only message I can get from is << you, non English speakers, are not our priority >>.
The ability to translate in multiple language the documentation created by non English speakers is a major challenge, we need to make it happen more often.
Everyday I heard French speaker saying that they do not belong to the Wikimedia Community because it's all in English/all for English, I do not pretend that improving the Translate extension will solve this issue, but it could be a little step forward.
thank for your attention
Charles
Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer "Wikimedia CH" - Association for the advancement of free knowledge - www.wikimedia.ch Office +41 (0)21 340 66 21 Mobile +41 (0)78 910 00 97 Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch http://prezi.com/user/Andrescharles/
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