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

[Marcus Buck]

An'n 28.01.2011 16:11, hett Arlen Beiler schreven:
> Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki.
That seems sensible! *eyeroll*

If you look in the archives of this mailing list, you'll notice that the 
Translatewiki guys asked Wikimedia to host the wiki more than once. They 
would have been happy to join and be part of the "official" Wikimedia 
universe. But Wikimedia didn't get its ass off the ground and nothing 
happened.

If you people really worry about undemocratic regimes overtaking 
Translatewiki and other evil stuff then direct your efforts against 
Wikimedia (which never bothered to provide a sensible way for 
localisation) and not against the guys who actually fixed the 
shortcomings. I guess, they would still be willing to settle under the 
Wikimedia roof, or am I wrong? (@Gerard Meijssen and the other 
Translatewiki guys)

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox (both on Wikimedia and on Translatewiki)