(Similar description in Chinese)
Hi, I’m Dave Munger. I’m president of ResearchBlogging.org and I don’t speak a word of Chinese. But this is the first page of an experimental blog to create a Chinese community on ResearchBlogging.org. Here we’ll work together to coordinate plans for creating the first Chinese-language aggregator of peer-reviewed research blogging on the Web.
Some initial thoughts:
- We’ll need at least ten bloggers to join the community in order for it to be self-sustaining. Since the English-speaking volunteers who created ResearchBlogging.org can’t understand Chinese, it will be up to this community to monitor itself and ensure that it maintains the quality established by ResearchBlogging.org.
- At this point, you won’t be able to sign up for ResearchBlogging.org, so if you’re interested in joining us, just post a comment here and we’ll add you to our list of interested bloggers.
- Our site supports multiple languages. But it is the people behind the system itself that will make it work. We need to get the people ready first before we bring the language online.
- We will need at least two volunteers who speak English and will be willing to spend some time working with our staff to ensure that the Chinese version of the site meets their needs, including translating some key text and guidelines from our English-language site.
- Beyond that, it’s up to you. I’ll try to keep up with what’s happening here, but for the Chinese community to work, it will require the efforts of Chinese-speaking bloggers, just as the English language site works due to the efforts of English-speaking bloggers.
If you need to contact me, you may reach me at dsmunger — @ — gmail — . — com (remove dashes).
