I always dreamt of a free repository of structured translations (let's say a wikidata of translations), maybe that's the time.
Vito 2017-11-25 18:19 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]>: > > > 2017-11-25 17:47 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: > >> Drat. I participated in the translation as a translator and a moderator. >> The closure of the moderators community was announced a few months ago, but >> the volunteer translation interface stayed alive. The total closure of the >> translation interface wasn't even announced to the old timers. This is >> really sad and wrong, and I can't understand the business logic in this. >> >> Having their own custom software for translation is really not very >> smart, though. I hope they come to their senses, nicely archive the old >> site, and then move to some other site, such as Transifex, OneSky, or >> Pootle. >> >> Despite being a former moderator, I can't think of anything smarter to >> reply, other than ranting :( >> > > That's waht ahappens when a commerial company advertizes that it creates a > community project and wants thme to contibute and give their work time but > can shutdown it without notice. > > Twitter is alone not to do that (think about Google Map and its very > unfair terms against the contributors that Google wants to involve to do > free work: Google could also shutdown this at any time, and Google Mappers > won't have any benefit, only Google wins)... So yes we can be ranting: we > should clearly continue to campaign against these pseudo open projects lead > in fact by corporates using unfair practices, only to increase their global > audience, then become a global facility that will then be licended only for > very limited use and with multiple filters (such as hiding relevant data > and replacing it by commercial placements where those that want to be > visible MUST pay an increasing price without any added value). > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > >
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