@evan @boris @darius @snarfed.org maybe it's somewhere in-between, and the translation project is more like translating a scientific textbook from one language to another.
The hard part in any truly decentralized project is going to be that the end-user *experience* of the data is going to differ from one user to another. I've argued in the past that *design and UX* standards are way more important than *encoding* standards, if we want all of this to work for people.