On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Fred Bauder wrote:
I use it a lot. Do not, however, use it for ==External links.
allafrica.com are news aggregators (they do not write anything
themselves) and after a few days the articles are only readable on a
subscription basis.
Find the original material and link to that instead.
I agree with another poster who said that to access technical subjects
(computers, science, voting systems?) a first-world language can be
required.
For instance, KDE has a Xhosa translation. But a friend who is a native
Xhosa speaker says the menus are very confusing - "Run" as in "Run this
program" get translated to "Run away" or something. He says it is much
easier to use the English menus.
Fault could be laid at the translators door, but often the concepts are
not easily represented in African languages.
If we plug away at the en: wikipedia, adding African-related articles,
maybe a couple of years down the line we will be able to automatically
translate to Xhosa. I think that is a /much/ better use of everyone's
time than writing a Xhosa wikipedia.
Andy's 2 cents ..
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