Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Positioning of <GNUpedia> - Multilinguism

[Bob Dodd]

[snip]
> 2) One parameter on which the existence of a project defined as
> suggested above can bring a critical added-value is true
> multi-linguism.
> Projects focusing on directly editing an encyclopedia will claim to
> aim
> at multilinguism, but they will have a natural bias to create a huge
> disbalance between the English lingua franca and other languages.
> This
> bias will take 30 years to correct. We can not afford it. I would
> thus
> motion that the guidelines on submitting articles to GNUPedia should
> recommend strongly submissions in the mother tongue of the writer and
> never make it compulsory (even as a lax recommendation) to provide
> English translations (but of course, non-native English speaker
> contributors who want to provide such a translation should be left
> free
> to do so). The contents of Gnupedia should reflect lingustically the
> diversity of its contributors.

Yes, up to a point.  For purely practical and legal reasons, we need a
way of checking that the content conforms to project rules about
copyright, spam, and plagiarism. We would need to select acceptable
languages carefully to ensure we have the "editing" resources necessary
for those specific languages. There's no point accepting arabic if
no-one on the editorial team can read arabic...

/Bob Dodd




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