Frank Steggink <stegg...@steggink.org> wrote: >However, I have the impression that a couple of countries >is missing. For example, Guernsey is included, but Jersey is not. >Shouldn't we stick to a list like this: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states >Most of it is already there. Or would this be a too sensitive subject?
Hi Frank, the suggestions for the translations come from the interlanguage links which you can find on the left side of every Wikipedia article. Thus Peters tool can only work for these 285 languages-versions of Wikipedia which support that interlanguage links. Further I guess Wikipedia has a lot more language specialists compared to OSM because of the related articles. This helps us a lot. We do not have to do the work twice that has been done by Wikipedia during the last 11 years. The reason why we have to confirm is that we do not want unsupported data in OSM. There are already too much imports nobody cares about and noones eyes have seen ever. And thus nobody knows whether this stuff is correct or not. As a second disadvantage only a small amount of users joins OSM in countries with imported data. Thus nobody cares there. Thus more and more mappers come to the conclusion that unsupported imports are not really helpful for the project. That means: If nobody cares about translations we do not want them. The possibly complete translations of all country-names should be a first starter when the Multilinguale Map of OSM comes online. Test it here: http://mlm.jochentopf.com/ Thus at least one object per country - its name - will be found at its best translated at least in the Wikipedia languages. Of course everybody can add the names for the non included languages and countries. But a suggestion taken from Wikipedia is simply not possible. In order to come back to your initial question you have to answer a difficult counterquestion: Make a list (No 1) of all 285 languages from these list http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias with support of interlanguage-links (who knows?). Make a list (No 2) of all official languages of all these states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states Which language from list No 1 is not included in list No 2? If you find one, then it could theoreticly added to the existing translation list. The question is, if you will find a worthwhile amount of translations confirmated by a more than tiny community in the local Wikipedia. Incidentally, the list of Peter does not support local dialect Wikipedia-languages. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
