[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[stevertigo]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/6/28 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> > Note: Why not make it a general "dres-l" and let all language wikis
> submit?
>
> Because multi-lingual mailing lists don't work. I don't want my inbox
> full of emails written in languages I don't understand.
>

Hm. They do work. In fact wikipedia-l was a kind of international mailing
list, though in reality most people who deal with intnl issues write in
English anyway.

And this is to suppose that after some short time of usage, there wouldn't
be some language forking going on? Seems natural that when intl usage gets
too high, maybe 18%, then we can start forking.

There is also a neat little tool now called Google Translate - I use a
little toolbar button in ffox that does it in one click (much better than
the extensions that try to do it all, actually). Not perfect, and not usable
for certain things, but usable anyway to read things and to send terse,
grammatically formal and concise messages.

-Stevertigo