[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 02:42:30 UTC 2008


On 24/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are more kinds of resources that need to be allocated than
> simply turning on Wikis, which is why understanding the payoff is
> important.
>
> For example, on a multi-lingual project like Commons it might be a
> reasonable requirement that all policies, featured image descriptions,
> etc be translated into the top N languages at a minimum.  Requiring
> translations into hundreds of languages would be a impressive waste of
> resources. By knowing the tradeoffs we can make better decisions.

What resources are you speaking of? Volunteer resources?
If so, I find the question fairly moot, as we can't really "require" anything.

cheers,
Brianna

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