From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T06:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Rubygarden's wiki restricted to English?

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:05:18AM +0900, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> > My view is: write and post whatever you want.  In the case of
> > non-English-language posts, the question (as it so often is) is "Who
> > would be the aggrieved party?" 
> 
> So, sending mail in HTML is OK by your standards? Eller att skriva p�
> ett underligt spr�k med underliga tecken? ;)
> 
> Well, my point is, I think new content should be in English, and
> translations should be made afterwards. So what if the original
> creator of the page wasn't fluent in English? It's a Wiki, there are
> always people ready to go in and clean up the mistakes. I don't think
> there are many more people ready to the translation though.

I was thinking of translations, but I would perhaps someday create
content in other languages and *then* translate to English (why? well,
because the other way around hinders my first goal, which is learning
the language :)
 
> I know I'd be pretty aggrievated if I had a problem and saw that the
> keywords I was looking for was right in the middle of a text I
> couldn't understand. :)

That's why I was asking...

> OTOH, who decided English was the language of choice in the first
> place? IIRC, both Mandarin and Spanish is spoken by a lot more
> people... Not that I speak any of them. :)

I believe this holds only if you consider the number of *native*
speakers. Then yes, Chinese wins and Spanish comes as a good compromise
between raw number of speakers and "internationalization" (number of
countries). However English rules when considered as second-language (or
3rd as in my case :) Maybe someday Spanish will become predominant and
I will be delighted to be able to post to ruby-talk in my mother tongue :)
(of course, that'd take so long that I should master English and have
a great command^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsome basic notions of Japanese
by then ;)


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