Hoi, Given that Spanish is one of the bigger languages in the world 2009/2/11 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanc...@gmail.com>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoi, > > I am afraid you do not appreciate the importance of localisation. Yes, > there > > are thousands of messages and it is possible to have them all translated. > > Tagalog is proof that a full localisation is possible. It was done in a > > relatively short period of time and I am convinced that the Tagalog > > Wikipedia will benefit as a consequence. > > > > When "Crazy Lover" asks people to help with the localisation of Spanish, > I > > sympathise with his request. It is important that people help. I do not > > understand the lack of awareness of why localisation is important. I > truly > > hope that many people will respond to CML's request because it will add > an > > important part to the Spanish language projects; the ability for people > who > > do not speak English to understand what is being asked of them in the > User > > Interface. The UI does not only consist of the core messages. > > Thanks, > > Gerard > > > > > > The point is that many of the missing ones are not even used on > wikimedia, so their priority sinks for the userbase. > Urging a translation saying it will benefit wikipedia doesn't seem to > follow logically (blahtex? are we replacing the latex engine? asksql? > , etc.) > > Currently > 100% of core messages, 99.96 of mediawiki messages and 88.4% of > anything wikimedia uses is already translated that's a fair share and > a huge number of translations, and it's certainly much much more than > 58%. The rest is extensions that will never be used on wikimedia or > aren't yet available. > > So I understand importance of translation, but I don't see the how > misrepresenting the numbers does any good. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
