[Foundation-l] Language proposal policy

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There are Turkish projects beside Wikipedia, there are projects outside of
the Wikimedia Foundation. All these projects would benefit from a much
improved localisation.
Thanks,
        GerardM

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > My question is a different one; consider how well the Turkish projects
> would
> > do if their localisation was outstanding.
>
> Do you have any evidence that they would do better than they do now?
> I'm very doubtful about it - it doesn't look like the untranslated
> messages are coming up in normal reading and editing at all. And I
> very much doubt that the Turkish Wikipedia is in any way hindered by
> the fact that if they would at some time in the future appoint someone
> with Oversight access, they better choose someone with knowledge of
> English or translate things first.
>
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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