Le 2013-04-25 04:49, George Herbert a écrit :
We can't usefully help with internet access (and that's proceeding at
good
pace even in the third world), but language will remain a barrier
when
people get access. In a few situations politics / firewalling is as
well
(China, primarily), which is another strategic challenge. That,
however,
is political and geopolitical, and not an easy nut for WMF to crack.
Of
the three issues - net, firewalling, and language, one of them is
something
we can work on. We should think about how to work on that. MT seems
like
an obvious answer, but not the only possible one.
Do you have specific ideas in mind? Apart from having an "international
language" and pedagogic material accessible to everyone and able to
teach them from a zero knowledge requirement, I fail to see many
options. Personally I'm currently learning esperanto as I would be happy
to participate in such a process. I learn esperanto because it seems the
current most successful language for such a project. It's already used
on official china sites, and there's a current petition you can sign to
make it an official european language[1].
[1]
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Esperanto_langue_officielle_de_lUE/
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