On 21 December 2012 16:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well, feels weird to see french as 1st priority frankly. That said, I would rather have a document with a medium quality translation for all languages possible rather than a very good in 14 languages :) Wouldn't the solution I mentionned, automated translation through Google Translate, be a good way to do that? And we could of course top the automated system with a human one for the most "important" language. -- Christophe

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: That was based on primary/secondary language users and activity of community, from a few years ago. Chinese, French, and Spanish do still seem to open up access to the largest communities of people around the world when one considers [second-language readers who don't read English as a first/second language]. Other suggestions welcome, of course. Right. Starting with a good human translation of a thumbnail summary, no longer than a paragraph, is a useful standard that lot of multilingual communities / processes use. Then readers can know whether they should start reading the full document, and discussing it in theiir language; others who don't want to read a poor translation but do want to discuss the topic can engage without themselves reading the whole thing. This scales fairly well as long as 1-2 people are willing to read in detail or know one of the languages into which the whole has been thoroughly translated. SJ PS - Every time a topic like this comes up recently, I think about how *totally wonderful* the recent improvements in the translation toolchain we use are and make translation by our community vastly easier than ie was even a year ago. We no longer have to think in terms of using Google Translate; we can start to build our own translation memory -- or more than one in focused topic areas.