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Welcome to the Community Glossary project! Microsoft is working in Cooperation with local governments, universities, and other groups Worldwide to help them build standardized glossaries of technical IT terms.
The Community Glossary Website allows a locally designated Project Moderator and volunteers to build the technical glossary for those Languages where terms have not yet been standardized. The terminology is drawn from words used in the user interface of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
The use of local volunteers to build the glossary allows technical IT terms to be standardized and agreed upon by that community. Those translated terms then can be used for whatever purposes the community desires. This may include building local versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office using a special process, but this is not a requirement.
Using a volunteer process to build the glossary supports the following goals:
Helps local groups to promote and preserve their languages Allows volunteers to develop their resumes and portfolios Builds community and allows this community to create the official IT terminology database for their local language.
Moderator’s Responsibilities
The Project Moderator is the expert selected by the group (often a local government entity) that is managing the glossary project. The project moderator sets the schedule for the glossary work, reviews submissions, and monitors the discussion room. At the date set by the project moderator, he or she begins to review all translation suggestions for each term. Based on community input and linguistic excellence, the moderator selects the best suggestion, then locks that term. This work continues until all terms are locked, and then the glossary is complete.
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