On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote:
The Tech News is intended to tech-capable users, yes,
but they are acting as
relays/ambassads to explain to other people, and they will create
presentation documents and have a didactiv activity.
Being able to speak a common language but understandardable one for everyone
is a must for these news that in fract don't enter in lot of tricky details
(and that are in fact read by more people than what you think, even if they
are not developers). Anyway even if you speak English on this list not
everyone on Meta speak it (otherwise these news would not need to be
transalted at all !)
And tech developers are not necessarily the best to speak about how to spek
non technical English that are more related here to the organization itself
(when we speak about the "Board"). Don't be elitist: these news are
intended
to be read by the world, including those not reading English. For that
reason we should avoid "jargon" as much as possible (and even many technical
terms have transaltions in MediaWiki because it is also intended to be used
by non-English communities, where English is also undesirable and very
unlikey to be understood correctly: we are in the area of usability of the
software).
So no, I don't support you too limited POV.
Hi Philippe,
I don't really disagree with anything I say, but I was responding to a
question regarding one specific page that relates only to a couple of
very specific actions. I generally agree with you that the
translations and the work you – we – do here are very important.
//Johan Jönsson
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