[OSM-talk] Wiki translate extension

[Steve Doerr]

+1

Language is not the same thing as country. There could well be 
French-speaking people mapping in England, English in Spain, Spanish in 
Egypt, Arabic-speakers in Turkey, Turks in Germany, etc.

Steve

On 25/07/2014 00:04, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> In my opinion we should try to keep the different language pages as 
> similar as possible - that is, they should aim to be just translations 
> of one another. My reason behind this is that OpenStreetMap is a 
> community and data project. We need to work together and use common 
> tagging so that developers can build tools based on OSM data. We 
> should avoid an OpenStreetMap for people who can speak English, one 
> for those that can speak French, etc...
>
> If there is country specific information about a tag then I would like 
> to be aware of it, as it could be useful for other countries/languages 
> too. That could be as simple as copying it to the English[1] language 
> page (marking it as requiring translation) or if it's longer providing 
> a link on the English language page.
>
> Also worth noting that a lot of the translations haven't stayed up to 
> date. This works both ways - English page updated, translations not 
> updated, or a non-English page updated and not copied back to the 
> English page (in any language). I'd encourage people to copy between 
> the pages even if they just mark the text as needing translating.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
> [1] You could also copy it to other language pages, but at a bare 
> minimum the English page as this is considered the "Main" page/OSM's 
> default language.
>
>
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