[Foundation-l] Localisation of MediaWiki

[Aphaia]

>From meta

The Greek nor the Spanish would get their final approval any more.
GerardM 14:36, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
:Thanks for your clarification. So Japanese Wikiversity can launch
their own wiki as well as Greek Wikiversity already does so? --Aphaia
15:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
::Sorry, no. GerardM 18:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
:::Then it seems still unfair. And I think it is your accountability
to provide why you treat Japanese project and Greek project
differently. --Aphaia 18:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

As an individual editor and as well an editor who joined the
discussion about this particular project, I think it is a fair request
for ask Langcom for the reason of this partiality.

Why Asian projects are refused what European projects has given?

On Jan 14, 2008 3:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> It is not surprising .. It is what we hope for.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2008 5:51 PM, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gerard Meijssen ha scritto:
> > > Hoi,
> > > I agree that it is unfair. I am asking others to help with the
> > localisation.
> > > I do ask the Spanish Wikimedians to do the localisation for their
> > language.
> > >
> > > Where I disagree is that it is unreasonable to require the full
> > localisation
> > > for any subsequent project to start. It is one of the few mechanisms
> > that
> > > the language committee has to ensure that projects in a language will be
> > a
> > > success. We require localisation and we require sufficient quality
> > content
> > > and sufficient activity so that we can prevent the failure of the many
> > > projects we have seen in the past. When the localisation is done and the
> > > project fails anyway there is at least something to show for the effort.
> > >
> > > For another second project, one with little or no localisation, we got
> > the
> > > complaint that there may be no people that CAN do the localisation. The
> > > person indicated that he is only a level-1 speaker of the language ...
> > what
> > > I ask myself is what the quality of the existing project is.
> > >
> > > In a perfect world the localisation of MediaWiki is continuously
> > maintained.
> > > In this way a new project does not have to put effort to fulfill this
> > > requirement. Some languages like Arab, Farsi, Dutch, Croat, Slovak,
> > Upper
> > > Sorbian to name only a few it is a perfect world.
> > > Thanks,
> > >       GerardM
> > >
> > >
> > Well, it just appears that the Japanese or the Spanish Wikipedia have
> > managed to become a successful project without a complete localisation.
> > Very surprising, indeed!
> >
> > Cruccone
> >
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