Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message used on their project into their own language.
It is no longer possible now, because Translatewiki exists, and there is a powerful Translatewiki lobby within the local Wikipedia/Wikimedia communities which actively fights against the translation of messages on-wiki, and compells users to open a user account on Translatewiki (1). "Translatewiki.net is not part of the Wikimedia Foundation projects" (2). So users are requested to either * Let awkward translations go on being displayed on their language version of Wikipedia * Or open an account on a non-Wikimedia project, which means providing non-Wikimedia managers access to your personal data. That means you are loosing the guarantees of http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy (the guarantee that your data are accessed only exceptionally and in such exceptional cases, always handled by people trusted by the Wikimedia Foundation) A user who wants to remain just that : a Wikimedia user, not a non-Wikimedia user can no longer work successfully on a Wikimedia/Wikipedia wiki. I ask the Wikimedia Foundation to protect its users from the aggressions of non-Wikimedia projects. And to implement a set of policies to prevent this sort of non-Wikimedia project lobbying. I ask the Wikimedia Foundation to support people involved in translation work, rather than expell them to non-Wikimedia projects. Symbolically, that means that the Wikimedia Foundation is expelling internationalisation. "Internationalisation ? What ? I don't want that to happen in my house", the Wikimedia Foundation is saying. (1) http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ADemande_d%27intervention_sur_un_message_syst%C3%A8me&action=historysubmit&diff=61680671&oldid=61680545 (2) http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:About _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
