[Wikipedia-l] multilingualism (was Q1 drive)

[Mark Williamson]

Hi Anthere,

The post is wonderful :)

But I hope it is not too late - you can still post belatedly a French
translation of it. It's not the same as having your blog entirely in
French, but it is somewhat different.

Mark

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:50:47 -0800 (PST), Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Mark Williamson a écrit:
> > Are any of your students Ossetic speakers, or for
> that matter speakers
> > of other Russian Federation languages?
> >
> > Even if you don't know if any of them speak it, it
> would be a very
> > nice thing to mention.
> >
> > When Wikipedia is spread from these students to
> their friends, it
> > would be nice if in addition to "Russian free
> encyclopedia which
> > anybody can edit", they will go to a Chuvash friend
> and say "Free
> > encyclopedia which anybody can edit, with even a
> version in Chuvash
> > waiting to be built".
> >
> > I think that in this respect, if people were to
> mention this more such
> > wikipedias would have more contributors.
> >
> > When Danny or Jimbo or Eloquence or Angela or
> whomever presents the
> > concept at a conference, as far as I know they
> either 1) don't mention
> > languages except in passing, 2) mention that it's
> multilingual and
> > that there are, for example, German and Japanese
> versions or 3)
> > mention the fact that it is available in the
> national language.
> 
> Nod... I do not know about how they present Wikipedia
> but for Jimbo. And Jimbo mentions it is multilingual.
> 
> I several times had that opportunity, either to talk
> in a conference, or several times per month at
> journalists, and my moto is free, free and
> multilingual.
> 
> (just always nice to see that I am never listed as one
> of those speakers, but well... getting used to it
> months after months, thanks for the cheer up Node).
> 
> But, I thought the opportunity (your mail) was too
> good not to mention my latest blog, since for the
> first time I wrote in english rather than french. So,
> if many french wont be able to understand it, some
> might.
> 
> http://anthere.shaihome.net/index.php
> 
> I often disagree with you Node, but really, in this
> case, I am fullheartedly with you. I recommand you
> read my little story at the end of my post in
> particular.
> 
> PS : my heart is a bit bleeding that yesterday, for
> the first time, I wrote in english on my blog.
> 
> PPS : My blog is dedicated to Daniel Pink and his
> latest article on Wired by the way.
> 
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