[Foundation-l] Language proposal policy

[Mark Williamson]

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2008/9/15 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What we need more then new projects is supporting our existing languages.
>> Even for languages like Turkish, one of our bigger projects, we have only
>> 74% of the MediaWiki messages and 25% of the WMF used extensions localised.
>
> I would say: so what? As you say, it is one of our bigger projects,
> and it seems to be doing well. If then still MediaWiki is not
> localized as you would like it, maybe that means that localization of
> MediaWiki is not thought by everybody to be as important as you think
> is? Wikimedia is there in the first place for making encyclopedias,
> textbooks and dictionaries. Projects should be supported with what
> they need to do that better. And I don't think that translating
> MediaWiki, at least beyond what the average editor comes across on a
> regular basis, would be high on that list. Apparently the Turkish
> agree with me. Translating the interface in many languages is a nice
> thing to have, and I am happy you are working on that. But I do feel
> you are putting way too much emphasis on it, to an extent that is
> bothering languages more than supporting them. Creating a betawiki,
> and inviting people to come over there is supporting languages.
> Forcing them to go a certain distance with it before they can get
> their project is bothering them. Then you are using the Wikipedias
> (and Wiktionaries and other projects) to build the software, rather
> than the other way around.
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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