On 11/29/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
- Name : babel.wikimedia.org ?
- Main Page : a list of languages by, say, # of native
speakers/readers [1], with prominent links to other views (by language-cluster, by geographic region, by article-count, by reader popularity...), information on translators & translation, and language statistics [2].
I think that a list in such an order would be confusing without any soirt of qualification.
Indeed. Maybe a dimensional-slider showing a number of views, across the top, would be best. There are many useful ways to view a list of hundreds of languages.
- Content : All localizable MediaWiki strings, in 200+ languages [3].
Portals for each language, describing work being done to develop that language, with portal-content in a few core language + the lang in question. All localizable custom strings for Wikimedia projects, in those languages. Key strings and messages (such as site-wide notice templates) which are used regularly and needed in every language.
The main problem with that would be: how many people are going to visit? Many people who have translated the interface or some other similar work at a Wiki would need to know that this Wiki existed, and further, they'd have to have incentive to come.
This would ideally be more immediately gratifying than other ways to do such translation; with helpful statistics also udpated as one works. And there should be simple upload functionality; at least a "send a text file to this email address and we'll load in your existing work" -- and it would be seeded with the current interface translations.
SJ