Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Starling
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I will be indeed the last to say that the Betawiki developers are not part > of the community of MediaWiki developers. The point that I tried to make > here is that when the Lingala community produces its *own *developer, they > will have a better grasp of the issues with t

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There are language issues that are not addressed. It is known for instance that the Safari browser supports Lingala better then Firefox and Opera. This is because Safari does NOT use a monospaced font in the edit screen. An obvious but not so elegant solution would be to have these other two b

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Tim Starling
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > A conspiracy is wilful. I doubt that this is the case. If anything there is > neglect. Other languages are just not given the same priority. There's no language-dependence in our priorities here, except for Robert's initial decision, back in October, to pilot the n

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, A conspiracy is wilful. I doubt that this is the case. If anything there is neglect. Other languages are just not given the same priority. What you hope for is that over time a language community will include developers that will take care for its language issues. In the mean time the Betawiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Chad
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > There has not been a satisfactory answer to the question why certain > services are not equally distributed over the services. When the > localisation and internationalisation of the tool server starts to kick in, > the priority of providing

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I had a word with Duesentrieb, he works for the German chapter, and he told me that the server issue is indeed a case of bad luck. He had some good news as well, Duesentrieb and some other Tool Server developers are looking into localisation for the tool server software. When the tool server t

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Can someone please explain why this is ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > Also, some of the (to use the same language as the poster) "first class wikis" (top 10 on article count, on numbr of visits, wikipedia.org main page etc) are also