On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 21.09.2005, 13:29 -0400 schrieb Greg DeKoenigsberg: > > The only way this will work, IMHO: > > > > * Identify motivated bilingual folks; > > * Have these folks put watches on the whole (English+their-language) > > site; > > * Build parallel wiki sites that are identical in structure; > > * Charge these folks with the duties of > > (a) Translating from English -> language_x > > (b) AND translating back. > > > > The key challenge, of course, is finding these individuals. Technically, > > it's not an insurmountable challenge. > > > > Any chance we can get hold of the people who rus fedorawiki.de and see if > > they'd be willing to run fp.o/wiki_de/ (or some such)? > > > > One motivated person, and a little bit of wiki tweakage, can give us a > > perfect test case. Proof of concepts are everything with something like > > this. > > I'll try to contact those and ask them if they are interested. But IMHO > the biggest problems see currently: > > - What with content from the german wiki -- do we want to integrate it > in our current wiki? If yes: > -- What is legally allowed on http://www.fedoraproject.org ? > When the wiki was quite new I asked if it was okay to mention livna > stuff there. The answer was: Better not mention it. But now we have a > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DavidFarning/fedorafaq > in it that mentions livna and other things that might be problematic. > -- If the english written by people with a different mother tongue is to > horrible (like my english) -- are there people with good english skills > around that can fix it? > - I think without technical support in/around the wiki the content will > between the different languages will diverge soon. But maybe I'm wrong. > If people People maintaining the wiki send changes in the german version > back upward into the english version it might work. Nah, we don't want to merge these wikis. I was just suggesting these folks as a good possible starting place. We'd still want to respect our own content rules: i.e. "don't talk about illegal stuff directly." --g _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
