dear all,
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 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 ;)
love,
jo
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.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:42:37AM -0800, Jo Walsh wrote:
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.
On Sun 04 Feb 2007, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
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 like it, and I think it might be the best way to figure out how the software should support things like this. After all, it's how we figured out what the software should do in the first place - watching what people did, and then writing code to make that easier for them.
Kake
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