Hi, jdd.
think of goals, not image. The goal is to bring with us the more people we can.
so localized wikis are aimed at all the guys that don't read english or don't like to see english rule the world.
So get in the wiki all the stuff you think Japan folks needs, don't ask at first if this will fit also english ones.
Right. Japanese SUSE users are increasing, but never enough. A high school student, friend of mine recently told me, she is taught at school "Linux is a CUI-based application for server, not recommended for beginners." We should let more people how SUSE is confort to use.
think the biggest localized wiki (german) has only 650 members, when the en one (older, of course) have more than 20.000.
Huge numbers! As for Japanese members, I don't know. Perhaps many Japanese is reading, but only a few of them make any action.
Of course this don't mean that the interesting info of localized wikis don't need to be translated in english, it would be much better is almost all the pages could be the same in all langages, but may be the english subscribers can do the job?
It's a pity many Japanese communities or user's groups are closed, saying "Sorry, only in Japanese". Many activities and discussions are not known in the world. I wish the localized wiki be at the same time a local base for sending informations to the world. noniko