Translations of pages in wikis

[Matthew East]

Hi Alexey,

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Alexey Balmashnov
<a.balmashnov at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I would like to talk about is related to the translations. At the
> moment, I would be glad if someone could clarify on the following:
> 1. Is there a policy available on how the translated pages should be
> organized (e.g. country_LANG pair code postfix for actual translated
> page or something alike)?

I can only comment on the documentation wiki (there is generally no
reason to translate most of the pages on the team wiki). In relation
to the documentation wiki, the basic policy is that translations of
documentation should be done on local team websites, for which hosting
is made available by Canonical.

See http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Documentazione/Indice for an example by
the Italian team.

> 2. Are there tools available making possible [cross-]linking and
> showing available translations for wiki-pages?

There aren't any sophisticated tools like this, as far as I know.

> 3. Are there tools available|feasible helping in maintaining a
> translations in the actual state (e.g. if original that was a base for
> translation is changing somehow)?

No. The only way I know of is to subscribe to the original page, and
then you will receive a diff by email showing any changes to the page.

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Matthew East
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