[Foundation-l] Request for Help: Spanish Betawiki Localization

[Meno 25]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > I am afraid you do not appreciate the importance of localisation. Yes,
> there
> > are thousands of messages and it is possible to have them all translated.
> > Tagalog is proof that a full localisation is possible. It was done in a
> > relatively short period of time and I am convinced that the Tagalog
> > Wikipedia will benefit as a consequence.
> >
> > When "Crazy Lover" asks people to help with the localisation of Spanish,
> I
> > sympathise with his request. It is important that people help. I do not
> > understand the lack of awareness of why localisation is important. I
> truly
> > hope that many people will respond to CML's request because it will add
> an
> > important part to the Spanish language projects; the ability for people
> who
> > do not speak English to understand what is being asked of them in the
> User
> > Interface. The UI does not only consist of the core messages.
> > Thanks,
> >       Gerard
> >
> >
>
> The point is that many of the missing ones are not even used on
> wikimedia, so their priority sinks for the userbase.
> Urging a translation saying it will benefit wikipedia doesn't seem to
> follow logically (blahtex? are we replacing the latex engine? asksql?
> , etc.)
>

Mediawiki extensions are not written for Wikimedia only. Non-Wikimedia wikis
will benefit greatly from the localistaion of these extensions.

--User:Meno25


> Currently
> 100% of core messages, 99.96 of mediawiki messages and   88.4% of
> anything wikimedia uses is already translated that's a fair share and
> a huge number of translations, and it's certainly much much more than
> 58%. The rest is extensions that will never be used on wikimedia or
> aren't yet available.
>
> So I understand importance of translation, but I don't see the how
> misrepresenting the numbers does any good.
>
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