Re: [Python-Dev] Translated Python documentation

On 2017-02-24 15:10, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 06:01:59AM -0500, trit...@sdamon.com wrote:>>> My gut splits the difference on this issue; I suggest an approach to>> meet in the middle – a version of the docs written in simplified>> English (Not quite Up Goer Five simplified, but simplified.)>> As an English speaker, my gut tells me that it would be much harder to> write *accurate* simplified English technical documentation than to> translate it into another language.>> You have all the difficulties of translation, plus you're working under> a handicap of only using some (ill-defined?) subset of English.>> Wikipedia offers some evidence supporting my view:>> - the main English Wikipedia has 5 million articles, written by nearly>   140K active users;>> - the Swedish Wikipedia is almost as big, 3M articles from only 3K>   active users;>> - but the Simple English Wikipedia has just 123K articles and 871>   active users. That's fewer articles than Esperanto!>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias>>> Nevertheless, I certainly wouldn't object if people wanted to try> writing Simple English translations of the docs. But I don't think they> would be as useful as translations into non-English.>[snip]

Would it be easier to make a translation into Esperanto, which is meant 
to be easier to learn than English?

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