- From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:49:54 +0200
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@la-grange.net>
- Cc: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "Chris Mills" <cmills@opera.com>, "'public-evangelist@w3.org' w3. org" <public-evangelist@w3.org>, "www International" <www-international@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:19:50 +0200, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > > Le 10 août 2011 à 09:11, Coralie Mercier a écrit : >> Karl's feedback to think about wikipedia isn't of much help to me. His >> feedback that he anticipates people to take ownership of content is of >> some help, assuming people who translate a page will "watch" that page >> for changes and apply changes to translations. Is this a fair >> characterization? > > nope, I expect and I think it will be good that people will make these > evolve in a way that we do not expect. Right now we see it as an > official English source and translation of the English source in > different languages. > > What I expect in a multilingual wiki (such as wikipedia) is that people > evolve the page on their own will diverging, refactoring, reorganizing > their own way the content. Basically after a few months or years, there > will be no identity in between pages on the same topic. > > I know it is difficult to imagine when we are used to a controlled > environment, but I think there is an intrinsic benefit in people > handling the content the way they want. > > These wiki pages are not specifications :) Thanks, Karl. That's helpful. So now we (on the W3C side) only have to make this mediawiki multilingual. -- Coralie Mercier - Communications Team - Incubator Activity Lead World Wide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org W3C/ERCIM - N212 - 2004, rte des lucioles - 06410 Biot - FR mailto:coralie@w3.org +33492387590 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
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