> > Michael Bimmler schrieb: > > > I absolutely agree here, what needs to be considered however is the > > > following: > > > If we have discussions about formal/legal things (e.g. about the form of > > > the foundation), it gets awfully difficult to translate these terms into > > > English. But we should certainly try to write as much as possible in > > > English from now on. If someone didn't understand one particular > > > > I do agree for the Homepage, but not for this mailinglist in general. > > AFAIK there are just very few persons that understand english better > > than german. All is it worth the effort? For me, I don't like the idea > > that all of my mails in english are being archived.
OK, changing the thread and answering awfully late. I think very good points have been made about the importance also to allow everyone to express themselves in their preferred language, without keeping people away because they don't speak one or the other language. English has its advantages and its disadvantages, ie. there might be people who How about trying to adopt, as much as possible, the following kind of standards: - ideally, every email should have a one line summary in all the other official languages, when the sender is able to do that. (note the ideally at the beginning of this sentence ;-) ) -But if the "all languages" thing is not possible (which will be more often the case), a one line summary in English, or even a translation of the subject (and even better, in the subject line, with a little [de]; [it] etc also to say which language(s) the mail is in) in English, would be already very nice. The idea would be to allow people who are interested in a subject to know what is being talked about, and to then go to a machine translation to get the essence, and ask for a real translation if they're really interested in the subject. More work for all of us, but also maybe fairer for all of us? Best, Delphine -- ~notafish _______________________________________________ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
