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On 10/19/11 3:31 PM, Christian Ruppert wrote: |
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>> Hello. While it is not tool late, could you guys reconsider top-down |
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>> localization approach decided on last meeting[1]? |
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>> There are language specific things that will be be kept out of wiki |
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>> only due to this policy. For example I don't see any reason to write |
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>> article about use of Russian cryptography algorithms in Gentoo in any |
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>> language but Russian. There is no need to have this article in |
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>> English since nobody will read it. |
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Maybe those rare cases can just use the unofficial wiki? It seems to me |
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that it would support that scenario. |
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My reasoning here is that it's better to have _something_ working for |
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the official wiki (and having an English version is arguably the most |
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important), than discuss for ages about the perfect solution. |
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Maybe in the future the wiki could be switched from this top-down to |
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some hybrid model that would allow writing standalone non-English |
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articles. But for starting, I think a good decision has been made. |
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> I think it is ok to expect that "everybody" can read and/or write |
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> English, at least partially. :) |
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Yeah. |
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> I don't know about other languages but at least for English/German it |
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> applies. *I* even try to avoid German docs because of that and often |
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> they're also misleading or "completely" wrong, not enough people who |
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> review it because they can't read it... |
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Yeah, and this isn't even about any specific language, I think the |
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critical point is the smaller pool of reviewers. |
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> So you *basically* need English knowledge/basics to install and use |
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> Gentoo/Linux, not everything is translated and mostly not even fully. |
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> Commands, Sources, ... almost all "English". You even need (basically) |
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> English to learn C or other programming/script languages - Why would |
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> you want to write docs, comments or even the help messages in your |
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> native language then? |
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I think for non-technical users it can make a difference. |
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> We also use English for our Mailinglists, IRC, Forums, Bugzilla and so |
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> on, why? Because everybody can read it. |
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Yeah. |
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> Another *bad* example are translated error messages. |
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> Do you like to get bug reports with German error logs? |
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+1 |
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