Thread:Policy or Guidelines? (1)

> Open question -- would this be a Policy or set of Guidelines? - User:Mackiwg

We could have both. Guidelines would certainly be useful. So, the question becomes "Just Guidelines or Policy too?"

Pros

 * Signals that WE encourages users to exercise their freedom to translate and localise resources and develop WikiEducator in their own language(s).
 * Easier to achieve consistency with multiple language pages and sites which enhances general usability.
 * WikiEducator administrators can be more forward in offering help to maintain such consistency.

Cons

 * Extra effort: to formulate policy, set up and maintain multiple language instances of WikiEducator, and to ensure that users are following the policy.
 * Although (possibly a pro?) : the policy might end up being really simple and minimal:
 * If the learners' language is "ln", then place the resource on ln.wikieducator.org
 * If the learning resource needs to be multilingual, then use template (or equivalent on the various language instances of WikiEducator)
 * Categorise pages with categories defined in the language instance of WikiEducator. This does not preclude defining a category which uses a foreign language word (e.g. French language course on German wikipedia might define a Category: français).
 * A "Policy" might seem restrictive to some users.

Pros

 * These would undoubtedly be useful.

Cons

 * Not as strong a statement as backing them up with a policy
 * without a policy we may end up with a mess (e.g. proliferation of foreign language pages on a particular language instance of WikiEducator).