[Foundation-l] Re: Rethinking Meta (was- Wikiquote now has subdomains)

Mon Jul 19 08:10:27 UTC 2004

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Let's take the "Stewards" discussion and vote as an example. The whole  
> discussion was mostly English as was the voting page. If we used  
> subdomains, we could have made it a requirement that the page be  
> translated into the main languages before we vote. We could have  
> aggregated the votes from the different language Wikimedias so that each  
> community could express their preferences in their language. We could have  
> translated important arguments from the discussion in realtime (in the  
> form of localized "pro" and "cons" lists, for example).

This could much more easily be coordinated on one wiki so long as everybody
sees the interface in their own language. This is especially useful and
convenient for multi-lingual people, who are the glue that bind us together.
Meta is a convenient, but currently flawed, substrate. A few improvements will
do wonders. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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