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Casey Brown wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com
<mailto:platonides@gmail.com>> wrote:
Cary Bass wrote:
Does this mean that you'll have your bot spam
the notice [2] on all
Wikipedias (only, no Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, etc.) listed here[3] ?
[
2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification
[
3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Internal/Dist…
Thanks :)
The text must be translated prior to the spam. The translation will be
done by people knowing each language. Thus, I'd favour each translator
posting the notice at the local VP after translating instead of a bot.
The translators will likely be on those communities and, anyway, people
is always preferred to bots. (Note that 1 wikipedia = 1 tranlation ~ 1
translator).
For languages not translated after X days (a week?), then a bot can be
run with a default language.
Did you look at the notification I posted? There's a spot there for the
translation. In my opinion, I think it's better to just get it out
there and *then* have it translated by a local community member. That
way we still have the original in English as well.
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
To run with what Casey is saying, the project is fairly useless if the
respondents do not know English to begin with. So it should be up to
the local projects if they'd like to translate.
Casey, should there not be a link to the project on Meta?
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