[Campaigns-l] US-only or international?

[Erik Moeller]

On 7/7/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd rather not mix up language codes with countries. If the wiki is
> really for France and not French, it makes more sense for it to say
> France than fr. Though something like wahlkampf.wikia.com might make
> more sense than using the English word for a wiki that's mostly in
> German anyway.

German is, however, also spoken in Switzerland and Austria, which have
very different national politics (Switzerland is not even part of the
EU), hence it might be good to have separate wikis.

Alternatively, you could do the language separation like Wikipedia,
and just use portals for the different countries. So you would have
Portal:Germany (or Portal:Deutschland or whatever) on every language
Wikia where there are enough people to bootstrap it.  Do you have a
preference between these two?

Note that "Wahlkampf" means "election campaign", rather than any kind
of political campaign (i.e. it excludes NGO and grass-roots work
outside election season). The literal translation of "campaigns" would
be "Kampagnen". This raises the question whether Wikia wants to focus
on the former or include the latter.

Angela, I won't have much time to commit to this, but if you get Rieke
to translate Jimmy's Mission Statement, I can pass it around a bit in
the German blogosphere and on some relevant mailing lists. The
Wikipedia experience shows that Germany probably has the second most
active net population, so it might be smart from a strategic point of
view.

Erik