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 know of some pages that exist in Spanish but not in English. I wrote some myself.
Which can be OK if they are Spanish speaking areas specific, but if they are technical articles then we have a problem if they are not translated back to English and any other language wiki. 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. Thus I'm actually working hard on a two way street translating from English to German and the other way around atm. Getting rid of language wikis (I'm pretty sure that's not your desire) is a absolute no-go. Btw, I second what Henne said in response to this email previously. Best, R
I remember writing article about Midnight Commander, based on article in the German wiki, and I'm sure there is more examples where English wiki lacks text present in other languages.
So, that is one of problems that must be addressed.
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