My understanding of South African history is fuzzy at best, but: Is there a good reason why the alternative language interface (to English) for a S.A. medical journal (hosted on SA's instance of SciELO) is Portuguese? Did Portugal play some major role in early South Africa?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Heleninstitches #teamff
I looked at that after asking the question. 80,000 people out of 53 million and *not* being one of SA's 11 official languages hardly seems enough to make Portuguese the ***only*** alternative to English for the journal's interface. But maybe they're very strong in the medical community? (Or maybe the journal picked up SciELO language-option defaults and only deleted Spanish...)
- walt crawford
One of the supporters (FAPESP) of SciELO operates out of Sao Paulo too, so says Pete.
- Heleninstitches #teamff
It looks like Portuguese is an interface language on all instances.
- Pete's Got To Go
Well, yes, Portuguese *should* be an interface language in Brazil, and it makes some sense that it's in all instances of SciELO, since that's where SciELO began and is strongest.
- walt crawford
OK, I get it, Pete & Helen: Since there are *some* Portuguese-speakers in SA and no known group of Spanish-speakers, it makes sense to delete the Spanish interface but leave the Portuguese one intact. Thanks. And now I know just a little more about SA.
- walt crawford