Since a shortened URL is included, long languages don't need to try to tweet the principle itself, a summary or teaser could be more attention getting anyway.
It seems like a good idea for languages that can handle it, I'm curious if twitter's popularity is affected in countries that have "longer" languages. There's always facebook! ;) On Oct 2, 2013 12:50 PM, "Pascal Chevrel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 30/09/2013 20:44, Smartin a écrit : > > Hi Stacy, >> >> 1) We'd love to have the Manifesto localized >> > > Hi > > The manifesto is already localized into 40 languages and this has been the > case for quite a long time, years actually. I am actually surprised that > this seems to be news to the people updating the manifesto today :/ > > The question for me is to know if this proposed change to the manifesto to > make it Twitter-friendly in English is going to make us regress on the > localization front. What happens if we can't shorten the strings to 118 > characters for locales? What happens to principles that are being shortened > in English but that are already less than 118 characters for the localized > version? We translate them again to match the new wording? > > 2) Yes, Michaela is point on. The localizers usually make suggestions >> on what makes sense. That said, we only deal officially with ES and >> PT on the Twitter front. We don't have accounts for incredibly >> letter-intensive languages, like German. :) >> > > That seems limiting to me, we want to spread a message on Twitter but will > only do that from Twitter accounts created by Mozilla as an organization > and not by Mozilla as a community? We will not incitate people in other > languages than English and maybe Portuguese and Spanish to tweet and > retweet it? We will not put a 'Share this principle' link on localized > versions of the manifesto pages? > > Sorry I don't have solutions to offer you (yet at least), but I think it's > better if you have all the data in your decision process and I think that > having the manifesto as a global tool should be part of the goal here. > > Regards > > Pascal > ______________________________**_________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/governance<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance> > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
