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...>
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