[Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When you contribute at translatewiki.net, you contribute to the localisation
of Open Source / Free software. When YOU only want to contribute to
Wikipedia, please do not localise MediaWiki because it does not give us all
the best solution.

Your notion of Wikimedia and its contributions are at odds with what the
notions of the WMF. We want to provide knowledge and the tools to acquire
knowledge to all comers. When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are
happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the use of our
project. When the CIA wants to use LocalisationUpdate and its people help
localise at translatewiki.net we could not be more happy.

Please study what Open Source / Free Software means and what its licenses
actually say.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 28 January 2011 15:12, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/1/27 Jesse (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com>:
> > These messages are available to all wikis
> > (including non-Wikimedia wikis), instead of just one wiki.
>
> That means contributing as a volunteer to a variety of websites with
> different principles. Wikimedia is a non profit and it is dedicated to
> the distribution of culture and knowledge, and this is what I am
> interested in. I am not interested in contributing voluntarily for,
> say, Intellipedia,  the CIA's wiki (they probably use a non-mediawiki
> software, but they could).
>
> There is a difference between letting non-Wikimedia wikis copy
> everything they want (fork anything they want) from Wikimedia contents
> and software, and working together with them, finding compromises half
> way between their needs and ours.
>
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