On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jay Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Multilingualism is at the core of our design thinking, as is the concept that > everyone be able to take simple graphic forms and turn them into their own > works. That's a nice way of putting it. Has anyone thought of making icons for the core menu items and interface strings? I know that some of the main page redesign discussions have looked into simple icons for each of the top-level categories or sections. That would both help with people who aren't very literate yet and with people who are trying to navigate MediaWiki (whether on our projets or elsewhere) in a language not their own. > There's no simple answer for how to accommodate many languages. Do we start > with 3? Which ones? All? I > don't know - but at a minimum I'm glad to say that we factor into our > production and writing the ideas of simple, > easy to comprehend text that can be understood by those for whom English > isn't a first language, and text that > lends itself to easier translation. It doesn't overcome the challenge, but > it's an important step. +1 to this, and Jay's whole post. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
