There are of course some minor differences between The Netherlands and Belgium, but they are not big enough to warrant 2 separate wiki pages. Thus the NL page is the translation in Dutch of the German page.
Where there are differences for specific tags/sections of the page, this can be added in the topic itself. As far as I'm concerned, it would be better to try and find common ground though. As for using the English translation as an intermediate because this happens to be what Google translate does, I'm sorry, but German and Dutch are near enough to each other in structure that it makes a lot more sense to translate directly. If somebody is more familiar with English, they are, of course, free to grab the section from the English translation and translate that one to Dutch. What is most important with translations performed by humans is to translate towards your own native language with good knowledge of the language one is translating from. The rules are different for machine translation. Jo 2013/2/10 A.Pirard.Papou <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> > On 2013-02-10 10:19, Jo wrote : > > This is about the translation of a wiki page to Dutch as a result of our > gathering in Lier yesterday. So the rest of the text is in Dutch. > > > J'ai jeté un coup d'œil à la page en français et je constate qu'elle > concerne essentiellement la France. > Et un peu comme les pages qu'on trouve sur le Web concernant la > législation ou les règlements concernant la santé et qui ne prennent pas la > peine de dire qu'elles concernent la France. > > So, will the page in Dutch apply to Belgium or Netherlands? Do not forget > to mention it. > > Side note: when translating from one language to another, GoogleTrans > first translates to English and then to the other language. So, it's > better to make an English translation first, to correct the mistakes in > English (in which the OSM term are best defined) and then to translate to > the other language. > > Cordialement, > > André. >
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