[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-10 Thread Wong Leo
Hey James , deeply sorry for not reponsing your mail at my another mailbox , I canot open the wikiversity and wikieducator when I am at my school intranet ( they basically blocked everything ) however I will when I am out of the cage However I still have the last hope for wikieducator their L4C w

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-10 Thread Wong Leo
Hey Steve thank you for your question , I got this from George Simens he wrote this to me Hi Leo - I'll look into the Chinese language problems on the wiki. I'll keep you posted. I imagine the solution should be as simple as having the appropriate plug in... George 2008 Olympic in China is reall

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-10 Thread Steven Parker
FYI http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multilanguage On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Steve Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wayne wrote: > > << I'm working hard to find a solution for establishing a Chinese > localisation for WE. The bottom line is that I need external funding > so

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-10 Thread Steve Foerster
Wayne wrote: << I'm working hard to find a solution for establishing a Chinese localisation for WE. The bottom line is that I need external funding sources for the installation and hosting. >> Who funded the Spanish, French, and Portuguese editions? << As a Commonwealth Agency, I am unable to

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-09 Thread Wayne
Hi Randy, We would need to estimate the proportional costs of bandwidth and server costs as a ratio of our total bandwidth plus the soft costs to actually install the localisation on the server. That shouldn't be too expensive. I'm willing to start the ball rolling by pledging CAD$100 per month f

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-09 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Wayne, In terms of costs - hard and soft - how much in US or Cdn dollars will it take to set up a Chinese installation and hosting service? If the numbers are not to high, then maybe it's possible to shake the bushes to find the funds. - Randy On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PRO

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-09 Thread Wayne
Hi Leo, I'm working hard to find a solution for establishing a Chinese localisation for WE. The bottom line is that I need external funding sources for the installation and hosting. As a Commonwealth Agency, I am unable to set up a Chinese version, unless this is funded through externally monies

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-09 Thread Wong Leo
Hey Wayne , Thank you very much for the clarification , and thank you for the good words , I was thinking about this , I will delete the post for now , and one small question If I requent them and they say No so which means I cant use them in WE ? honestly I like WE best :) and if they say Yes

[WikiEducator] Re: does WE support Chinese now ?

2008-07-09 Thread Wayne
Hi Leo, Wow -- that's an amazing start. Congratulations. -- I'm afraid we have a small legal problem. The Connectivism course does not meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition as the materials are licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. The non-commercial restriction means