Summary

Without objectives in mind, the Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project is impossible to shape. Target sites and use cases will orient the development priorities. This page explains the objective of use cases, explain how to contribute your use case and lists the current use cases.

List of Use cases

• Wiki-Translation
• Mozilla Firefox Support
• OpenID Europe
• Microformats Wiki
• MeatBall Wiki
• Community Wiki

Dimensions

After a brainstorm session during CodeFest 2008, a few differences between types of usage have been outlined.

• Amount of content consumers vs amount of content producers
• Mandated vs non-mandated
• Document is an end in itself vs a way to achieve results
• Translations must be aligned vs used in a synergistic way
• Control is top-down vs organic
• Content quality is important vs draft sufficient for communication

Methodology

1. Allow anyone to contribute their use case for wiki translation
2. Classify and group the use cases
3. Identify tools that could be used
4. Track successes and failures after deployment
5. Improve tools, documentation and selection criterias

Participate

Any use case is welcome. The more we have, the easier it will be to identify recurrent needs and to define priorities. Here is a suggestion list of information that could be useful.

• For which site?
• Is the content specific to a field of expertise? Which one?
• How much content has to be translated?
• Who are the contributors?
  • Volunteers or employees?
  • Experience level?
• Who are the translators?
  • Volunteers or employees?
  • Experience level?
  • Are they the same as contributors?
• Which wiki engine is currently used?
• Do translators use dictionaries, translation databases or automatic translation tools? Which ones?
• Is content currently translated?
• Which techniques are used?

To contribute your use case, simply create a page and add it to the list at the top of the page.