That sounds interesting.
Biligual people would act as bridges among languages in a natural way without any effort in translating just participating simultaneously in several sublists. Is this feature available in foundation-l? On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>wrote: > Joan Goma, 15/03/2011 14:59: > > If we could filter the noise, in each monolingual list and then record the >> signal and translate it to the other languages this could enrich the >> conclusions and make all the people feel part of the global project. >> >> But I don’t know how to do this. >> > > Perhaps a single multilingual list could efficiently work as a bunch of > monolingual lists if we used mailman "topics" to label messages by language; > each user could then set in its preferences which languages he wants to > receive (only the languages he understands well, or also some related > languages, or every language because he's willing to use machine translators > or is not annoyed by non-understandable messages). In this manner, you could > avoid fragmenting foundation-l (and other similar lists) but each subset of > users could avoid being overwhelmed by messages in a foreign and not wanted > language. > But I've never seen mailman topics in use and I don't know how and if they > work. > > Nemo > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
