From: Guillaume Marcais <guillaume.marcais@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T08:32:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Rubygarden's wiki restricted to English?

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 06:05 pm, you wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 06:03:29AM +0900, dblack@superlink.net 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? ;)
>
> I was talking specifically about posting to the Wiki.
>
> > 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 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. :)
>
> But, in fact, once you recover, you'll realize that you're no worse
> off than if it weren't posted at all :-)  And someone else might be
> better off.  So the effect is either neutral or good.

I disagree. If you have to browse through 10 pages you don't understand 
before reaching one you can read, it will make any search longer and maybe 
useless as you'll stop after the 5th page (like I do with any search on 
Google).
There must be a way to filter by language or some sort of organization of the 
information. Otherwise, the 'searching experience' is going to be painful.

Guillaume.

>
>
> David