[Fwd: Official Documentation links not working properly]

[Matthew Nuzum]

Stephen, I'm forwarding this on to the documentation team.

Just a thought: that website recognizes what languages you've requested
and honors your request. Because I don't know greek, the site always
shows in English. However, you've told your computer to accept greek web
pages when they're available and therefore we send you greek.

Now, the broken links are another problem altogether.

Thanks for the report.

Doc team, is there a way for a person to choose a different language and
override the default version without reconfiguring their browser?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Official Documentation links not working properly
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:57:11 +0100
From: Stephen Kingdom <stephen.kingdom at smia.co.uk>
To: <webmaster at ubuntulinux.org>

To: The Webmaster, ubuntulinux.org
From: Stephen Kingdom

There seems to be a problem with the links on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation

Clicking on "Official Documentation" goes to https://help.ubuntu.com/
but this is a page in Greek, not the expected English. This has been
like this for quite a long time (a couple of months?).

By chance, I happen to have a good command of modern Greek, but this
will not be true for most users!

Additionally, the links on this page are all broken, returning a 404
error e.g. clicking on "Οδηγός Ubuntu Desktop - HTML" (Guide to the
Ubuntu Desktop) goes to
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/el/index.html but returns
error 404.

Eventually I found I could get to the English language docs at
https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/en_GB/ but I'm sure you will
agree that the guesswork involved in finding this is not a satisfactory
way to find the official documentation.

Best regards,
Stephen Kingdom


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