[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)]

Hello,

All requests are treated in the exact same way, with no discrimination
or exception. The Spanish project was created before the language
subcommittee existed, so it was obviously not subjected to the same
rules.

This is also why the Japanese wikis now exist without localization,
but they would need to do it anyway! Were their wiki created now, they
would have a partially English interface and need to translate it
locally; then the next wiki would need to do it again. Translating the
localization files saves work and time later, and allows Japanese
editors to use a Japanese interface on any wiki.

Marco brings up one wiki that flourished without meeting these
requirements (it predates them), but I can give a very large number of
examples of projects that *didn't* flourish. Some interesting pages to
see are < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects
> and < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inactive_wikis >. So far as I
know, no new wiki since the subcommittee was formed has become
inactive yet.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)