DocumentationArea proposal regarding languages

[John Hornbeck]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:02 +0100, sparkes wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
> > I propose that rather than having all the documents listed in all the
> > languages on the Documentation we do the following.
> >
> 
> This is a major, major problem at the moment and will get worse in the 
> future.  What we are looking at is a major IA problem.  We need each 
> document to contain links to translations (and perhaps offer automatic 
> translation links to untranslated docs)
> 
> This means we have a total mess of links with every document needing 
> links to existing translations, links to holding pages with no existing 
> translations (so they can be added by internationalisation teams) which 
> contains a link to google (or something else) to offer a machine 
> translation as a starter.
> 
> AND, we need the document tree and associated navigation translated in 
> the way Ben suggests.
> 
> Decisions made now need to be easy to build on in the future but not 
> take too much time out of the actual creation of docs.
> 
> It's now time to reveal that I work as a web developer and understand 
> python so I am not adverse to helping mod the wiki code and help Simon(? 
> I think) with adding any features to zwiki that will help our docs do 
> this kind of thing.
> 
A webdeveloper nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! :-)
It will be nice to have some people on the team with some coding
knowledge also.  I write python and do web/dev also.

JohnHornbeck
http://hornbeck.freeshell.org/blogger

> > 
> > I also noticed the Spanish pages start Spanish rather then Espanola -
> > not really for me to say as I am a ignorant englishman (i.e. I don't
> > speak any other languages) but it seems sensible for the Native
> > 'spelling' of the language to be used rather than the English one.  Now
> > all we need is for someone to take on the Basque translation ;)
> 
> very true.  Internationalization and translation of docs is something we 
> need to start co-ordinating as well.
> 
> > 
> > Ben
> sparkes
> 
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