[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Website

Wed Aug 4 23:42:51 UTC 2004

Delirium a écrit:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> 
>> Thus a language-selection portal would be appropriate and expected for the
>> foundation website. Not having it right away is simply due to the lack 
>> of a
>> technically and aesthetically good implementation. A side benefit of 
>> creating
>> such a portal would be adapting it for use at www.wikipedia.org and 
>> other www
>> wikimedia project domains.  
>>
> Unless we can get everyone translated accurately pretty quickly, we 
> might want to still give English primacy as the language in which 
> Foundation business is conducted.  This wouldn't be related to where the 
> Foundation is incorporated, just due to the fact that if we were to list 
> all languages that members understand at least somewhat, English would 
> almost certainly come out ahead by far, and it's the language most 
> commonly used for cross-borders business these days outside of Wikipedia 
> as well.  (If at some point it turns out that everyone learns Esperanto, 
> I'd be happy to move to that; or if people learn Latin again, we could 
> move back to using Latin as the international language of 
> correspondence, but for now it seems English has more speakers than any 
> of the alternatives).
> 
> Of course, instant high-quality translations would be even better, but 
> especially for sensitive things we have to be careful that the 
> translations actually all capture the same nuances of meaning.
> 
> -Mark

Nod. I agree with this. I prefer english, at least for now.

But I think that if some people have strong opinion one way or another, 
I will be glad to settle on the leading opinion, portal or english per 
default.