[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Website
Anthere
anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 4 23:42:51 UTC 2004
Delirium a écrit:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
>
>> Thus a language-selection portal would be appropriate and expected for the
>> foundation website. Not having it right away is simply due to the lack
>> of a
>> technically and aesthetically good implementation. A side benefit of
>> creating
>> such a portal would be adapting it for use at www.wikipedia.org and
>> other www
>> wikimedia project domains.
>>
> Unless we can get everyone translated accurately pretty quickly, we
> might want to still give English primacy as the language in which
> Foundation business is conducted. This wouldn't be related to where the
> Foundation is incorporated, just due to the fact that if we were to list
> all languages that members understand at least somewhat, English would
> almost certainly come out ahead by far, and it's the language most
> commonly used for cross-borders business these days outside of Wikipedia
> as well. (If at some point it turns out that everyone learns Esperanto,
> I'd be happy to move to that; or if people learn Latin again, we could
> move back to using Latin as the international language of
> correspondence, but for now it seems English has more speakers than any
> of the alternatives).
>
> Of course, instant high-quality translations would be even better, but
> especially for sensitive things we have to be careful that the
> translations actually all capture the same nuances of meaning.
>
> -Mark
Nod. I agree with this. I prefer english, at least for now.
But I think that if some people have strong opinion one way or another,
I will be glad to settle on the leading opinion, portal or english per
default.
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