Re: [OmegaT-l10n] Who has/wants write access to the User Manual Wiki ?

[Sabine C. <sab...@ya...>]

Jean-Christophe Helary schrieb:
> On 16 sept. 06, at 01:40, Sabine Cretella wrote:
>
>   
>> One negative person should not prevent others from contributing. It is
>> better to exclude that one person that creates problems than not to
>> allow the access to the rest of the world.
>>     
>
> The process was very much open: I sent all the files I had to the  
> yahoo list, asking for comments and I got no reaction.
>
> I agreed with Maxym to put the thing online on a "closed" wiki  
> because obviously going "public" is not enough to make things move on.
>
> Once the manual will be completed it will be available for  
> translations. Having translators updating beta versions is not what I  
> would like to have to do myself.
>
> So people who declare themselves interested can join, others would  
> just as well wait until a publishable version is completed.
>
> JC
>   
Ok, so now imagine how editing on such documents normally works. Having 
files, you need to download them all and by doing that people feel like 
being obliged to read them all (for me at least the feeling is such). It 
is already hard to tell people that contributing to a wiki does not mean 
having to really work on it, but also editing one single sentence, 
writing a note on the discussion page, cleaning some typos is a lot.

That is why an open wiki makes sense - you get people to work on stuff 
step by step.

I myself also have the problem that I am not always present - sometimes 
I could translate two or three paragraphs, not much more, but by working 
on the whole manual that would become problematic. (so I chose not to do 
that in case of the files - time was simply not enough). Having the 
possibility to do just a paragraph every now and then without having the 
feeling that I have to work over the whole bunch of pages would be much 
better.

And many of us have these feelings. Consider: we are all working, some 
of us work on various open projects - so there is not much time left. I 
know some people who probably would do some bits of translation if they 
would not have to consider the whole manual.

That is why Wikis are there - once a person starts to edit small bits 
sooner or later that person probably will do more. And even if not: also 
the correction of typos is welcome.

If you exclude people from accessing the data you exclude many from 
contributing. I have people on nap.wikipedia who only add a link every 
now and then ... well over time also these links become quite a lot. If 
these people first have to ask to be able to do their small thingies 
they will simply not do it and leave it up to who wants to do all the work.

my 2 cts :-)

Ciao, Sabine
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