[Phpwiki-talk] Formal/informal German PhpWiki?

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

Hi All(-e DeutschSprachigePhpWikizens),

Recently I have been discussing modifications to the German version of 
PhpWiki with Helmer Pardun, who is writing a new book about Wikis.

http://www.deutschewikiakademie.de/phpwiki

We have concluded that we would like to have PhpWiki in both formal 
German and a separate translation for informal German. As it stands 
now, the German PhpWiki is a mixture of formal and informal. (In 
comparison, the French PhpWiki translations are strictly formal.)

The formal version would be ideally targeted towards businesses and 
other organizations who may be interested in starting their own 
PhpWiki, and who otherwise would not even be able to consider using 
PhpWiki because it currently employs the informal German language; 
while the informal version could still be offered for the 
Wiki-hobbyists (who probably would not insist on traditional formal 
German anyway). Another possibility would be to eliminate the informal 
German from PhpWiki altogether; however, seeing as a lot of work has 
already gone towards the current (informal) German translation of 
PhpWiki I think it best to keep it and simply add a formal German 
translation.

Also, I would like to see any formal notation (Sie) as the default for 
a German PhpWiki installation, but we can continue to offer the 
informal (Du) as an option. Perhaps by renaming the current 
"phpwiki/locale/de" directory to "phpwiki/locale/de-informal"? (oder 
"phpwiki/locale/de-informell"?) In that case, WikiHobbyists would then 
simply discard "phpwiki/locale/de" and replace it with the contents of 
"phpwiki/locale/de-informal" if he/she so chooses for their personal 
PhpWiki.


If there are no objections within a week or so, I would like to make 
the necessary changes to maintain two separate variations of these 
German translations in the PhpWiki-CVS.


Any comments, suggestions or ideas? (Positive, negative, or otherwise 
welcome.)


Vielen Dank,

Carsten Klapp <car...@us...>