Marc,
I really don't see the point in confusing users.
I don't share your point of view, users in other language could find it
really helpful once translated, even if it's only the most
important/read items, unless there is an easy way to translate and
maintain the translation of the English Ask site items.
Kind regards
Sophie
Well then, there should have been more consultation before going on to
the Ask site without nl group support. Is there not a push to provide
native language support for the Ask site?
As I said this is question of resources. Most of the NLPs don't have the
resources to run the site.
Also, there should be a disclaimer left at the top of the FAQ site that
the Ask site for EN is available. I can see your point about the nl
teams not having any FAQ support on the Ask site, but, the EN Ask site
has been up and running for a while, so to make the FAQ more rational,
there should be some type of coordination done at both levels FAQ
maintainer and the Ask site maintainer ... has the Ask site maintainer
been told of this?
I absolutely don't know. I only take care of the wiki, the NLPs and the
FR project, from my side, I can't do more.
Or you could just leave the FAQ site in FR and announce to the other nl
teams on the Project list that the FR FAQ page is available for them to
translate. I don't really see a point in translating the FR FAQ site
into EN when the EN team has gone on to the Ask FAQ system. The risk of
confusing the EN users is not worth the effort.
Do you really think that most of the NLPs has the French for common
language? that would be great, but English is the common language of
the project, it's not only for those who are English native speakers.
I think this is not really fair to the EN community to be treated this
way. I am sure that if this were done to any of the nl groups that there
would be some kind of comments about it.
I don't see why it's unfair, the EN speaking community is the largest
one and have the necessary resources to run forums, sites, etc... I, for
myself, didn't find it unfair when the Ask site was open while the FR
community didn't have the manpower to run one in his language. I don't
think that anybody has thought so, on the contrary it's great that it
can works for this community.
So what is the solution?
- let the NLPs without resources because they don't have them to run a
Ask site, I don't think this what you want too,
- provide what can be provided for most of the NLPs projects and say
that it's not the official FAQ for EN language? We can add on the wiki
that the FAQ page is a dedicated resource for NLPs and only a second
hand resource for the EN community because Ask is the first one, would
that be ok for you?
And as another example too, I've already installed our FAQ on some
private company intranet, this is a useful resource during migration
time, and I won't abandon it for that reason too. I don't think that
could be possible with the Ask site.
Kind regards
Sophie