Most internet users can read English to some degree. The percentage of individuals who can learn by reading documents in a foreign language however is rather limited. And many also feel that while they don't understand something fully, and thus cannot grasp its importance, they can rest assured that if it is important to them then the page would be translated to their native language. And this is what has now been asked for.

I just found this page here
http://www.fightaids.de/
which is rather nice in my view. And there should also be something like http://www.fightaids.pt or .br, if it helps to attract contributors - from my visits to Lisbon I would very much guess so.

All these extraneous sites aside, if WorldCommunityGrid does not offer translations themselves, there could be official pointers to national "partner sites" or so at the home page.

Hi Steffen!

First I didn't translate the project name, because it's difficult to make clear translations: Help Conquer Cancer and Help Defeat Cancer are very similiar project names, which are translated to Hilf Krebs zu besiegen and Hilf Krebs zu schlagen. Not really clear.

But I make the decission to translate project names because:
1. it's translated on wcg site (see french translation), too
2. the wiki is for new members from germany, austria, switzerland etc. and german speaking people don't search for 'cancer', 'clean energy' etc. They search for 'krebs', 'saubere Energie' etc.

But you are right. We must mention the english project name to link it with the german translation. I'll change it.

crille

Be careful with babelfish! In my former life life, I was responsible for translating texts from Dutch to French, English, and German. The texts were commentaries on laboratory tests in the clinical laboratory.
Using babelfish real horrors were produced with senses that were very different, and sometimes unrelated to the original.

Cheers,
Paul