[Localization] Spanish wiki page to lang-xx

[Yama Ploskonka]

There is one major barrier, and it's cultural.

"politeness and obedience are the main qualities ... there is high 
importance placed  on the established hierarchy of authority ... and 
subordination ... there is a reluctance to say or do anything more than 
what is asked of them, not necessarily due to ignorance or lack of 
interest but out of respect and politeness ... "
Quoting the Eduvision report on OLPC in Ethiopia, referring to students 
  My personal experience is that the same is true of teachers in the 
places I have known.

I think it will be totally powerful, and will do wonders to prove the 
model is indeed right when we get teachers to participate.  I believe 
success in that area should be the something to prioritize effort on.

 From a practical point of view they need to experience in having the 
wiki be of importance, so we need to get across that basic point.  And 
obviously they will need to learn how to participate, as soon as we 
convince them it's the right thing to do.

How?  Personally I believe that we ought to eat our own catfood.  When 
contents in the XO can motivate and train to use wikis, then we have our 
job done.  Other means (talks, conferences, books, cattle prods)  do not 
prove our model is viable in making change happen.

The medium is the message and all that.

Anybody knows an "intro to wiki use" page we can point our teachers to?

Yama

 >> If there is anyone else out there that thinks the idea of end-users 
(testers
 >> at schools) being able to post to the wiki in their own language and get
 >> useful info back to developers (mostly lang-en) with minimal language
 >> barriers, please step up and chip in.
 >
 > Anything to get the global community to post, I say. In fact, why
 > don't we create Spanish and French mailing lists, and take requests
 > for others?