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:::Maybe you might do that to your own wikipedia clone with ZawGyi font. That thing could work, but I don't think it is the wikipedia way. [[User:MyMyanmar|MyMyanmar]] ၀၇:၂၂၊ ၁၁ ဩ​ဂုတ်​ ၂၀၀၈ (UTC)

::::I understand what you mean Okisan, but Wikipedia does not pay contributors. Wikipedia is a collaborative writing effort by unpaid volunteers around the world ([[:en:Wikipedia:About]]). It's about contributing on topics that interest you. I think it would be safe to say that paying contributors to translate or buying encyclopedia cds would violate the "Wikipedia culture." When I left a message on your talk page about my disappointment at the creation of an 'alternate' Myanmar Wikipedia-like community, I wasn't mad at the copying of freely-licensed content, I know very well that my work here is free. What I was disappointed at was the splintering of a potentially vibrant Myanmar Wikipedia community, where users can contribute, revise, learn from one another, and most importantly, collaborate. And it does pain me to see that the work I and others have done here has gone nowhere. And it's not just about translation--this is just to start the community off, but with what I'm seeing now, it's saddening.

::::If we did get paid translators, who would fund this Wikipedia? All donations go to the Wikimedia Foundation. And I doubt the foundation would pay for translators, seeing that there are many other languages in the Wikipedia multilingual collaboration that could also use a boost. But if you guys have other ideas, feel free to throw them my way. :) As for me, I've tried to reach out to Burmese-speaking members of the Wikipedia community in other languages, with little success. --<font style="color:#49798C">[[User:Hintha|ဟင်္သာ]]</font><font style="background-color:#49798C">^{<font style="color:#FFFFFF;">[[User talk:Hintha|talk]]</font>}</font> ၀၇:၃၉၊ ၁၁ ဩ​ဂုတ်​ ၂၀၀၈ (UTC)