Thread:Cal-Boy/@comment-5175866-20160201224209

Hi Cal-Boy. I am messaging you here as a I have concern related to the Chinese Bible Study Community. A Chinese user recently messaged me and told me they were going to adopt the wiki and was wondering my opinon on the adoption (this was translated by Google Translate as I cannot speak the Chinese language at all).

Since I do not have an ability to communicate Chinese at all (I haven;t recieved a response from this user but I don't think they have an ability to speak English) so I was wondering if you could be of help, or at least point me in the right direction with advice and links. According to Google Translate's iffy translation they would like to turn the wiki into one about Christianity overall. This wiki differs in it does not cover modern Christian media, Biblical Translations, Canonization, the Crusades etc, but we strictly cover information within the biblical timeline. My vision on the thought of that particular wiki ever becoming adopted was that it more or less the same wiki. I would like to be able to communicate this with them, and be able to have a discussion about this wiki's values, beliefs, mission, ministry (and how we are a ministry) as well as writing style and format (other than it being different for Chinese speakers to understand it and to accomodate Chinese Bible translations). My concern is that we don't have a way to communicate about this. If he makes his wiki into a general Christianity Wiki, and not a Chinese version of this wiki I will have to cut of all the interlanguage links from both sites.

My question here is if it is possible that you can aide one time (unless you can in long-term, I understand a one time conversation would be difficult for you as well) in communication on chat or on a forum on Wikia to be able to intrept what we are saying to each other. I know this may be difficult for you, but I was wondering what your advice would be in being able to communicate and if you had any resources that we could use.

The other thing I am wondering do you think a Chinese wiki of this should be same topics but different writing altogether, or start with translated content from here and then work from there. What is your advice on what the relationship should be between the two wikis if they are both Bible Wikis?I honestly feel we are not ready to step into another language, but I want the possible Admin of it to be equipped. This wiki is a lot more than a wiki but a ministry and so the vision and goals need to be applied across all languages.

Thanks so much any help you can provide.

In Christ,

Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat 