On 2/26/2011 10:41 PM, Osama Khalid wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 06:52:07PM -0500, James Alexander wrote: >> It would be great to have it linked to Wikipedia in some way if that >> worked out but I think linking it to Facebook is a good thing >> actually. Efforts to lightly connect with popular social media sites >> like that can help drive the knowledge,understanding and use of >> great projects like this and open source/free knowledge in general. > I think using Facebook to attract more people to the free world is a > healthy use, but to *require* using Facebook, within the borders of > the free world, is a fundamentally different thing. > > That's not to say that the idea behind this translation platform is > something I'd personally not like, or want to use. It's the opposite > that led me to post here. > > --Osama Khalid
Ahhh ok. For some reason when I looked at it I didn't realize it was the only option at the moment and I'd agree with that. My apologizes :) There is a statement about offering other log in options soon so hopefully we can get others (such as openid etc perhaps) James _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
