In terms of railway construction, there are enough methods to prevent (or, at least, minimize the effects of) these issues, from building seawalls to using overhead electrification.56independent_actual wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 09:02A key sign an approach isn't working. When you build a railway next to the sea, the railway might be washed out. Building a third rail for electrification would just electrocute all the fishes, so we can't do that (no to maintenance hell). The best approach is to take it some way inland. Sure, the old railway was built on a narrower gauge to handle space constraints, but we should upgrade the gauge to be better, such as Standard gauge for compatibility for a lot of other rolling stock. We'll just widen the axles of current rolling stock.
Also, we are talking about a wiki maintained by a small group of people, not a railway line maintained by a large company. There are sufficient practical differences that do not make the maintenance of both things comparable.
Regardless of the somewhat disputed usage of the term "internationalization", what I described are actual problems. What is, then, your proposal to solve the issues I mentioned earlier besides an empty "there are different methods"?We could do the same witth the wiki. Currently, issues like internationalisation (there, i said it) could be solved by using a different approach instead of adding onto what we already have. The gauge problem is quite heavy but can be solved through a automatic tool or human power, so the syntax can be converted (i used a tool to change to Tiddlywiki after my Dokuwiki broke down, so i used an automatic converter and very little was left to perfect.
I'm not saying we should do this, just forcibly shoving images into your head to help visualise the problem of internationalisation (there, i said it AGAIN). I worry that if we don't provide a solution, people will make their own solutions in protest because there's this really cool mod they want to show their English-free Italian friends but they need to know how to do it. And that will lead to an even deeper circle of maintenance hell. In fact, i asked because i'm planning to make newsletter translations in the future, basically confined internationalisation.