Hello Gimp-doc people!
The Glossary is the first section of the Gimp documents which I looked
at. (I may need to go back to it again in the future, since I learned
more about it as I went along.) There are a couple of issues that
came up when I was going through the Glossary, which it might be good
to discuss on the list.
I found out that the German version had many glossentries which weren't
in the English version, and also many glossentries which were quite
different (and more informative) in the German version. (If you did
that, Axel, thank you!)
I tried to translate the German changes back into English. One possible
issue with doing this is that other languages may also want to make
similar changes to their glossentries, and that's a lot of work!
A large number of the newer German glossentries refer to the German
version of Wikipedia. Sometimes they refer the reader to Wikipedia
for more information and sometimes they cite Wikipedia as the source
of the information.
Roman suggested that we discuss the issues involved in this on the
mailing list, so that we might come up with a useful policy.
I see these issues (for and against) the German Wikipedia references.
- Wikipedia can change at any moment, making the references
invalid or doubtful.
- Citing the German Wikipedia entries in the English glossentries
(or those of other languages) isn't much use because:
- Not many non-German-language readers can understand German.
- The corresponding non-German Wikipedia entries (for example,
English) may be very different from the German one, so we
can't just change the references to (English/French/Czech/etc.)
- We don't want to violate anyone's copyright by using their
material without a reference.
- Is it really useful for the Gimp document readers to have to
refer to further information somewhere else? But if not, how
extensively should the Gimp docs go into specific topics?
One possibility would be to cite Wikipedia once at the top of the
Glossary for more information?
Thank you in advance for your ideas and suggestions.
Sally in Massachusetts
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