[WikiEN-l] Category translation

Tue Jun 6 22:12:20 UTC 2006

On 6/6/06, Elisabeth Bauer <elian at djini.de> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro schrieb:
>
> > Jimbo and others have also made it clear that any cultural distinction
> > between different language Wikipedias is accidental and in fact goes
> > against the intention (this in the context of which languages should
> > have a Wikipedia, but the idea carries here as well).  We don't have a
> > British Encyclopedia and an American one, because we can both
> > understand each other well enough to communicate.  If it were
> > *possible* to automatically translate all articles into every language
> > while keeping the content the same, we'd do so.  It just isn't, at
> > least not with current technology.
>
> Yes, the original plan was to write all articles in Esperanto and then
> have them autotranslated to all the other languages of the world. But
> somehow, this didn't work out so well.
>
> The rest of your posting is sort of new to me (I wasn't aware that
> cultural distinctions between different language Wikipedias were to be
> regarded as accidental and against the intention of Wikipedia proper)
>
> --elian

Take a look at the thread from July 2005 entitled "Policy
clarification: separate Wikipedias for cultures, peoples, and
countries, or for languages?"

Anthony