2009/1/24 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>: > > Ten days ago, I wrote: >> > >> > Wikipedia's article about OpenStreetMap is now available in 26 >> > languages. The most recently added is a brief translation in >> > Swahili, the East African language. > > After Portuguese and Afrikaans have been added, there are now 28 > languages. But of the largest Wikipedia languages, we're still > missing Japanese (5th biggest) and Chinese (12th). Who can help > with this? > > English, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap > > Japanese, http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap > > Chinese, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap > > Next in Wikipedia size without an OpenStreetMap article are > Catalan (Wikipedia's 15th largest language), Volapük (19), > Indonesian (25), Hebrew (26), Korean (27), Vietnamese (30), > Serbian (31), Bulgarian (33), and Persian (35). For comparison, > Swahili is the 89th largest language of Wikipedia, having 8400 > articles, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias > > Careful! Of course you will have to follow the rules of Wikipedia > and prove why this article is needed, relevant, sourced, etc.
The fact that Japanese was missing was quite odd, since we have quite a few mappers there, afaik. I got a friend of mine to translate the first paragraph in attempt to lure some more translators in - http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/オープン・ストリート・マップ -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
