[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It is not surprising .. It is what we hope for.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Jan 13, 2008 5:51 PM, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
> Cruccone
>
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