[Foundation-l] Language Prevention Committee created

[Andre Engels]

2007/3/27, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:

> As far as Gerard and I have talked about this issue and I understand
> it, it seems like a sensible policy to me. If you want a new language,
> it should not be that difficult to at least prepare the groundwork for
> MediaWiki localization before you start. If you cannot even get that
> organized, how are you ever going to write a useful encyclopedia?
>

What if your interest is in writing an encyclopedia, and not in translating
software? If you have 10 people happily writing articles, but none of them
having interest in going through all 200+ MediaWiki-pages, does that mean
that it can never be an encyclopedia?

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