[wp-polyglots] Call for beta-testers: official international WordPress sites

[Annette]

Hi Nicolay

first of all thanks for your clarification and let me clarify my words a
little bit as well...
We indeed think that this project is good for the international and local
communities, and for sure we think and care about the users, because we
ourselves are users and we serve support for the users in order to spread WP
in our countries. This is what we are doing in our spare time since years
and we still enjoy it and think it is a useful job we are doing.
Your announcement, however, might have surprised already existing
communities a bit that`s all...
As I stated already we are in and will serve the necessary files at
de.wp.org

Thanks and regards,
Annette




2007/9/10, Nikolay Bachiyski <nbachiyski at developer.bg>:
>
> 2007/9/10, Hasan Karaboga <hasan at teknoseyir.com>:
> > Hi,
>
> Hello Hasan, and all the others, who wanted clarification on our
> intentions.
>
> > This application may be useful for the countries which has not any local
> > WordPress site.
> > But there are lots of large WordPress local communities like WordPress
> > Germany, Turkey, France, Italy, Russia etc.
> >  What does WordPress.org developers think about that communities?
>
> There are several goals of this project:
> - to offer a unified interface and a central place for getting both a
> translated version of WordPress and WordPress support
> - to help smaller communities grow faster and using less resources
>
> > Do you think that aggregating the WordPress communities in the same
> domain
> > and same design is a good way? I think some people will perceive
> aggregating
> > the communities, as monopolization. I don't know the details, and the
> aim;
> > so waiting some extra information about that. Thanks!
>
> Let's think more of our users. I, myself, am the maintainer of the
> Bulgarian translation and lots of people come to my site, who had
> downloaded the original WordPress version, without knowing that there
> a Bulgarian translation even existed. They just go to the WordPress
> site, install the software and after that they start looking for a
> translation. Our idea is to make this process easy and painless for
> the users: they go to the WordPress download page and choose the
> language they want. When they want support, they just go to the
> WordPress site and ask in the forums in their language.
>
> Of course, you have a choice. We neither want, nor can, force you to
> move to wp.org infrastructure. I know many local sites have solid
> communities, with crowded forums and hundreds of blog posts and forum
> topics. All we are doing is trying to make it easier for users. And I
> hope you will agree with me, that having all in one place makes sense
> for the end-users.
>
> Thank you and happy translating,
> Nikolay.
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