[Foundation-l] Wikimedia/Wikipedia trademarks?

Nathan Awrich nawrich at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 00:22:07 UTC 2007


Admins with language proficiency who are also able to identify what is
and what is not libel (or in violation of some other law) in a given
state?

On Dec 17, 2007 7:18 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/12/2007, Nathan Awrich <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the
> > OTRS system effective at policing, say, libel in languages other than
> > the most common European languages?
>
> I can competently answer this bit, at least :-)
>
> We've currently got OTRS queues, and someone on the end of them, for
> af, als, ar, cs, da, de, el, en, es, fi, fr, he, hr, it, ja, nds, nl,
> no/nn, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sr, sv, tr, zh.
>
> (At a quick glance... wp's over 80k articles, the top tier or so,
> we're missing Catalan, Esperanto, Ukranian)
>
> When material that *isn't* in one of those languages comes in (offhand
> I remember encountering Bulgarian or Indonesian) we usually beat
> around the bushes to find a trusted admin on that project who also
> speaks English (or some other common language), tell them about it,
> and see what can be worked out.
>
> I don't know how good we are at it, but the world hasn't collapsed yet :-)
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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