On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 15:23, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 February 2010 03:24, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How about making it multilingual? > > Hi Edward --- Agreed, WE need to extend our multilingual reach. > > Do you have any thoughts, ideas or advice regarding the best way to approach > a multilingual glossary?
I know that we will have to get help from each language community. There is no guarantee that we can create a one-to-one mapping of terms from one language to another. For example, even within English a tomato is botanically a fruit and by custom a vegetable. The legal classification of tomatoes for tax purposes was litigated all the way up to the US Supreme Court. There are many free software tools for managing translations, including translation memory systems for keeping track of standard equivalents between languages. > Is is better to keep multiple languages in the > en.wikieducator or host these on the specific language install? We will certainly need some of both. > Kim has been working on language / multilingual related templates, see for > example: > > http://wikieducator.org/Template:Languages > http://wikieducator.org/User:KTucker/My_Sandbox/Multilingual > http://wikieducator.org/User:KTucker/My_Sandbox/Flashcards Thanks, Kim. > Thoughts? > > Cheers > Wayne > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
