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- From: Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer AT gmail.com>
- To: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:53:03 +0200
Hello,
I'm a PhD student, and I have a blog where I post summaries in Arabic of recent research that's been published in my field in European languages. I was hoping to be able to contribute these summaries to AcaWiki, but I was disappointed to find that it's English-only.
AcaWiki is a great idea, but it's unacceptable for it to be monolingual, all the more so if it's aimed at a general audience. Most people in the world don't speak English. Moreover, English-speakers already have much easier access to scientific knowledge than non-English-speakers (other things being equal); it's the non-English-speakers who most urgently need something like AcaWiki.
Ben
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http://sites.google.com/site/benjamingeer/
I'm a PhD student, and I have a blog where I post summaries in Arabic of recent research that's been published in my field in European languages. I was hoping to be able to contribute these summaries to AcaWiki, but I was disappointed to find that it's English-only.
AcaWiki is a great idea, but it's unacceptable for it to be monolingual, all the more so if it's aimed at a general audience. Most people in the world don't speak English. Moreover, English-speakers already have much easier access to scientific knowledge than non-English-speakers (other things being equal); it's the non-English-speakers who most urgently need something like AcaWiki.
Ben
--
http://sites.google.com/site/benjamingeer/
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[acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual,
Benjamin Geer, 10/07/2009
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Re: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual,
Mike Linksvayer, 10/07/2009
- Re: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual, Benjamin Geer, 10/07/2009
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Re: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual,
Mike Linksvayer, 10/07/2009
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