I realized I forgot to touch "Reply all" and email was sent to Verdy.... :p
-Yena Hong (Revi) Wikimedian https://keybase.io/revi -- Sent from Android -- ---------- 전달된 메일 ---------- 보낸사람: "Hong, Yena" <[email protected]> 날짜: 2014. 4. 8. 오전 8:06 제목: Re: [Translators-l] Ready for early translation: Tech News bulletin #15 (2014) 받는사람: <[email protected]> 참조: Well, both true for Korean. Most people interested in Tech News can read English without being translated, and there's some difficulties about translations... (Like, I had some discussions about word "Test wiki" with one translator's talk page. It was about if "testwiki" means "Wikis to test" or "[[testwiki:]],[[test2wiki:]] and [[testwikidata:]]".) -Yena Hong (Revi) Wikimedian https://keybase.io/revi -- Sent from Android -- 2014. 4. 8. 오전 1:10에 "Philippe Verdy" <[email protected]>님이 작성: > In fact only 14: exclude German and Korean whose only translations are > generic items recurring each week; and possibly Japanese as well that just > adds 2 effective items translated (in planned changes, bit none in > effective changes). > > I wonder why German gets no translation since long; given the number of > German Wikimedians. > > It's less surprising for Korean even if (South) Korea has excellent level > of Internet coverage since long (but also its older and popular cooperative > and social platforms, explaining why Wikimedia is not so successful there). > But may be most Koreans don't feel the need to translate English (because > many of them have excellent education levels and can easily read English; > but educated Koreans may have chosen another secondary language than only > English, such as Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish or Arabic and > would like to get translations from English to their primary Korean > language). > > Or may be there are specific difficulties for translating technical > English to Korean (we are speaking about tech news here, not general news, > songs and poems). It's rare to find technical documents written in Korean > on the Internet (much more than in Chinese or Japanese). > > > 2014-04-07 14:50 GMT+02:00 Tomasz W. Kozlowski <[email protected]>: > >> Vira Motorko wrote: >> >> How many languages this week? =) >>> >> >> Sixteen! :-) >> >> Tomasz >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Translators-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > >
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