Forum:A matter of language

Hello, I need some help. I am the admin of projects (or Open Project Development), officially a multilingual wikia. But for now it has been developed only in English and Italian (with some rare translations in German and French). The problem is: someone has started editing in an other language (I think greek), and I cannot see if the edit is related to the wikia or not. The fact is more complicated: "projects" is taking form and getting very structured. But how can I manage it if I don't know what other people do?

Now my question is: what should I do? Should I:


 * 1) Let Open Project Development get an "only english" wikia and request an italian one?
 * 2) Ask for help everytimes someone edits in a language I don't know?
 * 3) Let the wikia develop without having any kind of supervision of the project?
 * 4) Other proposals?

Thank you. --Let&#39;s 15:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Managing wikis when you can't speak the language is difficult - ask any of the Wikia community team ;) I think the key is to trust people.  As with anything on wikis, you have to rely on the fact that the majority of the people will do good the majority of the time.  Those editing in another language are likely to be good people doing good work - and keeping an eye out for those that are doing bad work in their language.


 * That said, it's possible for things to get off track without the guidance of the original concept, so it's also handy to keep an eye out - especially in the early stages of a new language project. Auto-translators may be useless for real translation, but they can be very useful in giving an overview of what's going on.  A list of the translators I use is at User:Sannse/translation resources.


 * And the final piece of advice I'd give, is to talk to people. Someone in the community may be able to help with discussions, or you may find you share a language with the new editor, and they are likely to be very pleased to be able to discuss their work and the direction it's going in.


 * Have fun :) -- sannse (talk) 08:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)