YWAMKnowledgeBase:Multiple Languages

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When we started the YWAM KB project we started it in our native tongue. Although I (Kev-The-Hasty 10:08, 20 June 2008 (CEST)) can read French as well as English my written French is appalling. Machine translation is very poor too and can be offensive for native language readers.


Multi-lingual Vision for the Knowledge base

I see a time when we will have 7 or more Knowledge bases in parallel in several languages. English, Korean, Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian... who knows which languages.

I see each KB held to each other one by a shared vision and values but free to use their KB in whatever way most helps their cultural situation.

I see a small team of administrators co-operating to keep one or two servers that hold all these different KB's. It will be an international team, that perhaps never meet in person. It wont be limited if one person leaves or decides to take a mission trip for 6 months, others can step in for them. Infact there will be no official head of the KB project; just people helping each other bound together by a common vision.

A Plan

The goal is to have parallel KB's but realistically it will take some steps to get there. I have no idea how needed some of the intermediate steps are but time will tell!

  1. People start writing foreign articles in the English KB. They do this by starting a new article with the country code and a slash before the title.
    • Thus an article on "Evangelism" written in Korean becomes "KR/복음전도".
    • In French "FR/Evangelisation"
  2. A category should be added to a foreign language page (French Language Article - see that a start has been made already: Category:Français)
  3. On the front page a link to the Category will be made in a new section on Foreign languages
  4. When it appears a momentum is growing and a community is forming in that language a proposal can be made to create a parallel wiki. I would guess 3 very keen people would need to be found to take it on. The good news is that there is great excess capacity on this server and the technical expertease can be shared. No need for a super technical person to be found.
  5. Once a proposal is agreed, the new parallel wiki will be created and the articles migrated. New wiki will be in a sub-domain.
  6. New articles in this language will be written on the new wiki
  7. Unless an article is very mature I would advise against translating articles. The purpose of a wiki is for change. It is better to have English articles inspire Korean articles and visa versa.
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