[Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

Thu Mar 31 03:08:46 UTC 2011

Milos,

Basque is not spoken on that list. I haven't heard of any interest in
creating a Basque chapter (and I've recently been in contact with a few
people from the Basque Wikipedia, for a chapter-like activity, so I believe
I would know if such interest existed), and the Iberocoop list, on the other
hand, is focused on existing and planned chapters.

In any case, although we firmly defend a multilingual setup, we've
thoroughly discussed this and agreed that it can only work when the
languages are, like Thomas said, mutually intelligible. Basque would not fit
there, because of this, but AFAIK most Basque people speak Spanish as well,
so that wouldn't be a (hypothetical) problem.

Cheers,
Waldir

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 16:32, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 12 March 2011 14:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> A really (and not only formally) multilingual list is the new iberocoop
> >> list, started after the last Wikimania
> >> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop ).
> >
> > I didn't know about that list. That's very interesting - thanks for
> > the heads up! It is a lot easier to manage a multilingual discussion
> > where all the languages are, to at least some extent, mutually
> > intelligible, though. It would be useful to hear what measures, if
> > any, that list has taken to make things easier, though. They might
> > work more generally.
>
> Willing to hear how Basque language is used on that list.
>