[OGDev] paralanguage Guides

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:42:37AM -0800, Jo Walsh wrote:

> i've been visiting Berlin a lot and would like to start a Guide so i
> can write about the funny and useful places that i find or am shown. 
> 
> but i don't speak any German and i want to keep it that way - it's an
> awful language. ( http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html )
> 
> i thought about asking for best practise / prior art on multilingual
> Guides. the thing is i am not worried about having translations, and i
> would sort of rather have any language that people feel like writing
> in, squashed onto one page, than separate stuff out, in a way which
> might make different language communities feel unwelcome or lapse into
> local minima. 

I don't think anyone's actually done much of that so far but having
multiple languages "organically" in one guide is an interesting one that
I think could be explored.

> i could do quite a lot with silly icons, and categories can have names in
> any language, that's fine, and i'm not worried about knowing what
> language category names are in - people will understand or not understand
> - and one day we can do some magic with http://omegawiki.org if we like.
> 
> how is the OG collective hosting situation? it would rock my world if
> i could park this somewhere i would not be subsequently responsible
> for breaking and upgrading ;) 

I'd be happy to host this for you. Drop me a private mail if you'd like
to go ahead.

Cheers,

Dominic.

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