CZ:Proposals/A new subpage for translations of approved articles

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Complete explanation

This proposal aims for the CZ community to officially endorse translations of approved articles and to encourage people to start such translations under given circumstances that will be subject to discussion.

Once a positive decision has been made there shall be a new default subpage type "Translations" for approved articles where links to different translations will be collected.

example link: German / deutsch: Biologie

The actual naming convention for the translated article itself could be Article/Translations/Language.

example: Biology/Translations/German

Furthermore, an Eduzendium initiative could be started for language scholars to translate long and complex articles as a course project.

Reasoning

I think it is perfectly clear that CZ aims to be a mature and better Wikipedia in the not too far future. This implies CZ projects in other languages than English. Having said that, the proposal above shall be seen as an easy-to-implement and very convenient preparation for the start of the first international CZ.

Implementation

A practical "to do list" type explanation of how the proposal will be implemented, and who will implement it. If there is no one to implement the proposal (as, for example, with many technical or recruitment proposals), then it is automatically declined.

Discussion

A discussion section, to which anyone may contribute.

Allowing translations seems harmless as long as there's a disclaimer indicating that errors may have been introduced during translation, so why not? However, I don't think we should go so far as to actively encourage this currently. Warren Schudy 12:55, 23 February 2008 (CST)

Permission to translate articles is already granted under terms of the CC-by-sa-3.0. Stephen Ewen 14:12, 23 February 2008 (CST)

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