On Tuesday 02 March 2010 08:03:07 Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
Rajko,
2010/2/27 Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net>:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 08:15:13 Carlos E. R. wrote: ...
There are people interested in translation of the wiki, but maybe not in this list. You could ask in the wiki list, or the translation list. Me, I do translations, but not of the wiki.
The question is what to do with translations as project policy, ditto this mail list. The same question was asked on wiki ML and there was no answer, or there was, but with slight misunderstanding about the goal of the question.
The goal is not only to cleanup the wiki by trowing away translated articles, but how to keep articles somewhere.
I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about. If you mean to get rid of un-maintained translated (to whatever language) articles IN the english wiki: Certainly go for it! BUT I hope you don't mean to get rid of localized wikis all together.
I have no influence on localized wikis, although when you touched topic, we can get rid of all that are not touched for some time. For me limit should be the same as distro lifetime plus 2 months. In other words, if maintainer can't update wiki to show at least one of supported versions, put note on the main page wait for 2 months and then just turn the switch off. Note that in "Translation guide", or some article that will exist only to collect such info, as reference for future translators and be over with. With current release cycle that will give 26 moths other interested to jump in and update wiki. The talk was about translation as a way to acquire new market, and the begin is usually that someone translates only few key articles to make download and installation easy to people from his country. I would like to have dedicated wiki for such articles with simple organization where each language has portal and category, so that we can remove them from en.o.o. Unmaintained article will get Outdated article tag with note when it will be deleted. What was mentioned about unmaintained wikis that should be valid for articles. When article is about not supported version then it is marked as such and after 2 months is removed. ...
... Translation process that assumes that translation is one way street from English to some other language has a serious flaw.
+1. While doing the German Wiki Reviewing, we encouraged German Reviewers to push German content not available in the English instance into it. ...
It is nice to have agreement on something :)
Best, R
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