[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Hoi what is unfair is that previous project proposals had less stringent
rules then the current and future project proposals. In my reply to Aphaia I
said as much. What I also said was that it is not unreasonable.

I do encourage pan-project development of the localisation process. At the
time when a language community asks for a new project the quality of the
localisation will be assessed. It is exactly because we expect an ongoing
localisation effort that this requirement should not be an issue. The
problem that we face is that the localisation for most languages is often
severely deficient. The relevance of this is something that is not
appreciated by the users of an English user interface because they get their
localisation by default.
Thanks,
    GerardM


On Jan 15, 2008 9:32 AM, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Several members of the language committee are extremely unhappy with
> > Pathoschild's sorry show of doing this on his own accord. They have
> > indicated that they will block final approval for any project by going
> > back
> > on this necessary part of the policy.
> >
> > Again, there are two parts to the policy.
> > * When a language is starting it only needs to do the most used messages
> > of
> > MediaWiki. This provides basic support for a language.
> > * When a project request is a subsequent project for a language, all
> > MediaWiki messages and the messages of the extension used by the WMF are
> > required.
>
>
>
> Gerard, you acknowledged before that this is unfair - I agree, and, to me,
> it doesn't seem to make any sense. Why not allow second and subsequent
> projects open with the same requirements as the first and, as you said,
> encourage pan-project language communities to develop the localisation
> process as an ongoing project?
>
> Cormac
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