[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Marco Chiesa]

Gerard Meijssen ha scritto:
> Hoi,
> I agree that it is unfair. I am asking others to help with the localisation.
> I do ask the Spanish Wikimedians to do the localisation for their language.
>
> Where I disagree is that it is unreasonable to require the full localisation
> for any subsequent project to start. It is one of the few mechanisms that
> the language committee has to ensure that projects in a language will be a
> success. We require localisation and we require sufficient quality content
> and sufficient activity so that we can prevent the failure of the many
> projects we have seen in the past. When the localisation is done and the
> project fails anyway there is at least something to show for the effort.
>
> For another second project, one with little or no localisation, we got the
> complaint that there may be no people that CAN do the localisation. The
> person indicated that he is only a level-1 speaker of the language ... what
> I ask myself is what the quality of the existing project is.
>
> In a perfect world the localisation of MediaWiki is continuously maintained.
> In this way a new project does not have to put effort to fulfill this
> requirement. Some languages like Arab, Farsi, Dutch, Croat, Slovak, Upper
> Sorbian to name only a few it is a perfect world.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
>   
Well, it just appears that the Japanese or the Spanish Wikipedia have 
managed to become a successful project without a complete localisation. 
Very surprising, indeed!

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