Dear Gerard,
We are managing a wiki site on an old and renewed multilingual demographic dictionary
based on the work of an International Commission on Terminology in the 50's at the
United Nations and later by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
(IUSSP).
Multilingualism is 6 official languages at the UN, but for practical reasons is reduced to
bilingualism in bilateral Scientific conferences (for example German-French) or still some
rare International Scientific Conferences (English-French).
Introducing "Mother languages" enlarges multilingualism to "hundred"
of languages and thanks to Unicode, UNESCO (21st February 2000), Wikipedia, UN resolution
(
http://www.undemocracy.com/A-RES-61-266.pdf) etc. to make it real multilingualism
possible while preserving diversity in this world.
But here is my point. Could you discuss (at 6pm UTC for example) the need (or not) for
Wikipedians to sign their articles using their mother languages (ie in Cyrillic, Thai,
Russian, Arabic etc.) and no more using the English transliteration of their real name or
even pseudos?
We know that it is possible on Wikipedia and other Mediawikis to have a localized
authorship (see Михаил Денисенко on
http://ru-ii.demopaedia.org/w/index.php?title=90&action=history for example) but the
authentication with non English ASCII characters is difficult. Especially if you are
abroad with an English keyboard only.
Wouldn't be easier to allow authentication via username OR email like that:
Username (or e-mail): |___________________|
Password: |___________________|
We recently proposed a patch which is currently discussed in a thread at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-February/058183.html
but we need some support to make this new option a reality for Mediawikis and Wikipedia
too.
What is your opinion?
Regards,
--
Nicolas
Le 21 févr. 2012 à 10:11, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :
Hoi,
Today at 18:00 UTC (see also the link below) there is a Wikimedia Office
hour with the WMF localisation team. The subject is what more can we do for
your language. On my blog I entered some of the things we can talk about.
We also love to hear about how what we already do works for you and what we
(both you and us) can do to extend it further.
Joining our office hours is a great way to celebrate International Mother
Language Day.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&…
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/international-mother-language-d…
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From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 20 February 2012 23:17
Subject: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with the localization
team tomorrow
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all! Just a quick reminder that you're invited to join the WMF
localization team at 1800 UTC tomorrow.
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From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Subject: IRC office hours with the localization team, on International
Mother Language Day
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to give some advance notice about IRC office hours with the
localization team [1] at the Wikimedia Foundation, which will be aptly held
on International Mother Language Day.[2]
Date: 2011-02-21
Time: 18.00 UTC
Venue: #wikimedia-office
As usual, more logistical info and time conversion links are available on
Meta.[3] For a taste of what the localization team has been up to, I highly
recommend the blog posts they've been writing regularly.[4]
Thanks, and we'll talk to you later this month!
--
Steven Walling,
Wikimedia Foundation
1.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localisation_team
2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
4.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-lo…
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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