If the Foundation Endowment paid for translations of articles across
Wikipedias, it would still be like a Foundation Grant in terms of the
legal effect on the DMCA safe harbor provisions and the practical
effect on whether mistakes could bring the Foundation into disrepute.
Maybe the Foundation
Difficult, yes. Impossible, no.
Part of the problem can be that some Wikipedias are somewhat fussy about the
language you use. There are users who object to anyone using a word not
approved by some authority, but cannot suggest what to do when there is no such
word.
Cheers,
Peter
Using a term from another language while creating an article and then later
localizing that term isn't that difficult, and should not be described as
impossible. What it does although identifies a problem with our current
production system; it is easy to move an article, but it is not easy to
make
Yes, I mentioned something like this in one of my emails in this thread.
Every language goes through a period of creating terminology. Some
languages successfully create native words (Icelandic is a famous example),
some languages are fine with taking foreign words (um, English took a lot
from
Part of the problem may be that the vocabulary is lacking. It is very difficult
to explain a concept in one language when you know the words only in another
language, and it would be considered original research by some Wikipedias to
make up words for the job. I have struggled with translations
It should also be possible for an editor to let the payment go back to
foundation. This would probably be the case for many users in industrial
countries.
Perhaps it wasn't clear enough but the interface to manage translations
would be for someone other than the involved translators, aka a third
You guys are making the whole idea way to complex. There should be no
editorial board. That goes against the whole wiki-way of doing things.
There should be no additional foundation, that makes the whole idea
unmanageable. It will also cost way more than the gain.
Make thing DarnSimple™! A single
Pine, there is one possible way to fund such translation in the future; The
Foundation is building up an endowment. When that endowment has grown to
the point where the annual return is sufficient to fund the Foundation,
then you could re-purpose the annual fundraiser from collecting money to
host
