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Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? [#1280]

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80.177.121.55: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-09 12:39) [#4295]

My understanding was that Sensei's is an English language wiki. All non-English material should have a translation supplied. The use of non-English would normally be restricted to Go terms, players' names, and Book and film titles. Discussion, and explanation, should be in the English language.

Is my understanding correct? Harry F?

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tapir: Re: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-09 14:00) [#4296]

There is a certain number of german pages here as well. It doesn't hurt...

80.177.121.55: Re: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-09 14:53) [#4297]

Tapir -- thanks. On other wikis, I have seen concern that all material be adequately monitored for suitability of the material. Imagine some vindictive posters posting completely unsuitable, possibly illegal, material -- NOT so in this case, I am sure. Are we concerned about this potential problem? If so, do we believe that the monitoring is adequate? Harry F?

Unkx80: Re: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-09 16:27) [#4300]

I believe this HCVLeague? page is in Vietnamese. I also recall pages written entirely in Bahasa Indonesia. There are others as well...

I guess we assume that people are innocent until proven guilty?

DaveSigaty: Re: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-09 15:49) [#4299]

"Sensei's Library is a collaborative web site about and around the game of Go (also called Igo, Weiqi, and Baduk).

It is a repository, a discussion medium, it is the pot of GO(ld) at the end of the rainbow! SL is whatever you make of it."

From the [ext] Front Page... Where do you see the word "English" here? There are currently 16,000+ pages in SL. The idea that they have all been checked by the PC Thought Police is a (very sad) joke.

xela: Re: Is Sensei's Library an English Language wiki? (2008-02-10 02:05) [#4301]

I'm not aware of any official policy on the matter. The tradition so far has been that people who want to write in other languages are perfectly welcome. I don't see anything wrong with it.

This site in general is a lot less restrictive than, for example, wikipedia. I like it this way.

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203.210.209.173: ((no subject)) (2008-02-10 05:20) [#4302]

Sorry, If I can't use Vietnamese for senseis's library then I will deleted it. I swear this page serve for Go, you can ask some Vietnamese.

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MrTenuki: Re: ((no subject)) (2008-02-10 16:12) [#4303]

Well, as you can see from the discussion above, that might not be necessary. (As far as I know, there are pages in Spanish and German as well, and a page that translates the KGS FAQ into Simplified Chinese.) It might be useful to give a brief description in English at the top, though, just in case people are confused. Something like "Note: this page is about an event held at a Vietnamese Go club" would be sufficient.

 
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