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Re: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual
- From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
- To: Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer AT gmail.com>
- Cc: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] AcaWiki should be multilingual
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:53:45 -0700
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Hello, and thanks for posting the first message to acawiki-general!
I don't speak for AcaWiki, but FWIW, running a multilingual wiki or
other site that works well is pretty difficult. I've tried a bit on
wiki.creativecommons.org and mostly failed. To start a new language
Wikipedia (where each language gets its own independent mediawiki
site) a bunch of content has to be created in an incubator to ensure
there's an adequate community to keep the Wikipedia instance going.
I don't know what the right language strategy is for AcaWiki
(possibilities range from none to independent sites like Wikipedias to
mixed content like Wikimedia Commons to a mixed site like the CC Wiki
to only automated translation like opened.creativecommons.org is right
now. Do you have ideas? Tests that could be done in your userspace on
AcaWiki?
Mike
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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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