[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia fundraising slogans from identi.ca and Twitter

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 03:52:35 UTC 2009


2009/11/15 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> It is not in fact that easy - because every slogan has to be
> translated into a pile of languages (by volunteers), and every banner
> has to be tested thoroughly in all translations

The foundation doesn't agree with you there. Well that or it has
worryingly low standards of failure.

Translation is not universally desirable as we found out with the "It
looks like something the GDR would produce" problem this year.

>(some this year broke
> in IE6/7). So there really isn't that much room to move.



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