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I don't doubt that the Github-based CMS will allow for community-provided translations. I _do_ doubt that we'll see anything like the current set of languages
by pianoben 6y ago
I don't doubt that the Github-based CMS will allow for community-provided translations. I _do_ doubt that we'll see anything like the current set of languages covered at anything like the current levels of breadth and quality.
Like I said in another comment, approximately nobody translates technical documentation for fun.
- bawolff 6y agoA surprising amount of mediawiki documentation is translated by volunteers (i cant speak to the quality as i dont speak nonenglish, realistically the english source material isnt that great) but volunteers do translate things
- rhizome 6y agoPerhaps interestingly, I had a frustration in the other direction just last night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Soria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Soria https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Soria https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Soria Notice that the English page seems obviously translated by a non-native speaker, which has some implications not favorable to Mozilla's behavior here, specifically that ESL people will contribute documentation in English that native English-language speakers won't even provide for themselves.
- bawolff 6y agoWikipedia translations are a bit different because they are not meant to be 1:1. The translations in theory are entirely separate articles. I was thinking more like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download vs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download/es https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download/es