On 3/20/06, houghi
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:42:44AM +0100, Mikael Sundmark wrote:
The Swedish (SV) openSUSE.org http://sv.opensuse.org was "launched" on Friday, so a new language site added to the list of present openSUSE sites; English, French, Spanish and German.
Should we announce this in any way or what is the process.
It would be nice to have such things on the frontpage of the existing languages as a newsitem. It shows that openSUSE is working on internationalisation and can be used to promote it and ask for more people to join. Either with existing languages or with new languages.
It would be a great oportunity to explain where we are now and what has to be done. The numbers: Number of living languages, worldwide: 6,809 Number of "nearly extinct" languages: 417 http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=900003&contentID=253189
More on http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp
So we have a long way to go. :-D However if you look at your owb country, you see that dialects are called a language as well. Belgium is indicated as having 10 languages. Either way too many or way too few.
Another example: The number of languages listed for Brazil is 235. Of those, 188 are living languages and 47 are extinct.
So there is still a lot to do. :-)
houghi
It is always good to have a plan :-) In all seriousness, it is one aspect of the opensuse.org project where the community is actually in control and providing the driving force. (well, we have no admins in the english wiki but that doesn't matter for the most part). So the number of languages is totally up to us. We just need the community members that speak the language. I added an announcement to about Swedish to http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_News Could a sysop add it to the front page, or if I am trusted, can i get sysop status (it was worth a try :-) Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin