Svip wrote: > 2009/8/21 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]>: > >> Just to clarify, are you saying that in your view, too >> few messages are translated to Danish, or are you >> saying that too many messages are translated to the >> Danish language? >> > > Unfortunately; neither. Messages that shouldn't be translated to > Danish, have unfortunately been, while messages that should have been > translated to Danish, haven't. > > But that's without mentioning the horrible state of the localisation > in general: Wrong context translations, just wrong translations and > many spelling errors. > > The Danish Wikipedia itself is in a pretty bad state to. Too many > articles on it are close to laughable, and you can often find better > articles on Danish subjects on the English Wikipedia than the Danish > one. > > I find your comments very significant. This suggests to me quite strongly that it may in fact be that emphasizing the *quantity* and *completeness* of localizations, over the _quality_ of the same, can be a double edged sword.
The thought also is hard to escape, that there is a definite "late mover disadvantage" to the creation of a wikipedia. Anyone who has experience of the growth process of a LOTE-wikipedia (to borrow a four-letter acronym from a different free content context -- 'Language Other Than English'), will inevitably recognize the feeling of seeing something better written on the en-wikipedia than at their own language version, and as the en-wikipedia matures, this disadvantage is not going away, or losing effect, sadly. I could write more on these subjects, but in the interest of briefness, choose not to, but will instead mull my thoughts over and reflect... > I my mind, the combination of the poor localisation and the bad state > the Danish Wikipedia is in, scares many Danish editors off. > > And it should be mentioned, that many Danes have a pretty good > conception of English, and the interest in Danish is unfortunately > lessen as well. > > I am trying to do my part, by translating the pages on Meta wiki and > the Strategy wiki to Danish. > > Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
