On Monday 01 March 2010 07:30:06 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
On 02/20/2010 02:45 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
Do we need them?
Some of them yes.
If yes then we have to organize wiki translations in a different way then it is now.
True.
Recently when we started with en.opensuse.org (en.o.o) reorganization there was few questions to decide what to do. One of them is what we are going to do with few translations of some wiki pages, but not enough to grant own wiki. I asked what we going to do with those articles.
Get rid of them
It is easy with outdated stuff. I'll put in the wiki what I mentioned in another, answer to the Rupert.
and while were at it get rid of the assumption that English somehow is the "master" language.
I has to be written and advertised, so that everyone knows.
With this we can get rid of the whole process and grant language wiki's on the one requirement that all the other attempts fail on: openSUSE people that care for it. We have a couple of successful language wikis (german and french mostly) and the only reason they are successful is because the people that work on them are active AND connected to the project. I think this should be THE prerequisite to start a language wiki, not some technicalities. Once "granted" the maintainers can do what they want with it.
Agree on both requirements, activity and connection to the project. First is similar to already written requirement that wiki can be created only for group of translators that can keep wiki updated. One man show is no go. Second requirement to have translators active and connected to the project is new and crucial. Those that have problem to talk to the rest of the project for whatever reason really can't maintain wiki. Although we should be careful as each of language wikis started with one diligent translator, including those that can be considered successful. German was exception, but that wiki is exceptional in every respect.
Henne
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