I'd rather spend my time on a parallel site (www.englishmonks.com, anyone?), learning and doing my little to explain the intricacies of the language...

Really, this is not intended to be blind criticism, but I think it's almost completely wasted energy, time, resources. Automated translations wouldn't work, with the side effect of being even more misleading for who's not confident enough with the language. As another option, translations would have to be doing by us, keeping up with updates, working on soon-to-be-deprecated nodes.

Making the site usable by everyone, redgardless of the language, is a very noble cause, and very utopistic too. I'd rather concentrate on writing clear posts... and... no, I was not joking about englishmonks.com :-)

It is my firm belief that one version in one language is much better that the same information in different languages, not only for PM, the same applies for Linux manpages as well. I really appreciate the efforts of the many groups trying to translate the man pages in every language, but at the current pace it is only a waste of time. Sometimes I think abuot the same resources (time, people, computers) being used for teaching English instead.

We may like it, we may not, but English has become the defacto standard in computer science (and many other areas as well). I can't refrain from thinking that a would be IT professional is not a professional without a decent practical English knowledge. Of course it's different from amateur programmers and youngsters, but I see the English language as part of the necessary toolset...

That's why I (utopistically, maybe?) would rather spend efforts and energy in helping those people learning English instead. Sure, it's the steepest way, but I think there are no doubts about its much greater effectiveness, especially in the long term.

-- TMTOWTDI

In reply to Re: PM Pages Translations by trantor
in thread PM Pages Translations by shadox

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