Localized help.ubuntu.com blueprint

[Laco Gubík]

On 9 May 2010 14:14, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> 2010/5/7 David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>:
>
> [ref] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-localized-help-dot-ubuntu-dot-com
>
>> I'd still like to discuss this at UDS, and I'd like to ask you to
>> reconsider it being superseded and participate in the discussion, be it
>> during the session, or afterwards on the mailing list (I'm fully aware
>> that UDS being during the week and on work hours makes it impossible for
>> everyone to participate). This is something the translations teams keep
>> me asking every cycle: if help.ubuntu.com has got the infrastructure to
>> support localization, why duplicate this for each LoCo?
>
> I have no problem with a session at UDS to discuss this. I won't be
> able to participate in the discussion because UDS falls during my
> working day, but I am also happy to continue discussing it over email
> and I agree that it can and should be a public discussion and on a
> mailing list. I'm copying the ubuntu-doc and ubuntu-translators list
> to this email.
>
> I'll give you my views as they are at the moment. My main reasoning
> not to support localisation on help.ubuntu.com is to promote
> consistency and to avoid localised resources appearing in different
> places, causing confusion for users.
>
> The main Ubuntu website is not localised. As you know, we encourage
> local teams to provide information about Ubuntu and resources on
> specific websites, and for most languages such websites exist. Many,
> many teams also provide support resources through that website by way
> of forums and documentation. This means that users speaking different
> languages can easily find information about Ubuntu in their language
> in a dedicated website, which then becomes the home for Ubuntu
> resources in a particular language (e.g. www.ubuntu-it.org,
> forum.ubuntu-it.org, help.ubuntu-it.org, etc).
>
> If we provided localised documentation on help.ubuntu.com, that would
> mean fragmentation for localised resources, because some resources
> would be on the specialised local team's website, and others on
> help.ubuntu.com. I don't think that is in the users' interest. It also
> means that the local teams wouldn't be able to customise the theme of
> the online documentation. It would also be very difficult as far as I
> can see to implement a system to make the header and footer of the
> webpages automatically localisable through Rosetta.
>
> Furthermore, there would be fragmentation within help.ubuntu.com
> itself. The wiki area (at help.ubuntu.com/community) isn't translated,
> and I think it would be strange to have translated material in one
> part of the website, and not in another.
>
> As you know, Chris is developing a system which will provide a banner
> which offers to guide users towards localised websites when they
> arrive at www.ubuntu.com. I don't see any reason why a similar system
> couldn't be put in place for help.ubuntu.com too.
>
> In summary: I would encourage all translators and local teams to
> develop a documentation area within their existing localised websites.
> It's very easy to produce a localised version of help.ubuntu.com and I
> would be happy to work on improving the instructions for doing it
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/BuildingDocumentation).
> Equally, I will merge any patches into the ubuntu-doc branch which
> make the process easier for local teams.
>
> If other people, particularly those working on local websites, have
> different views, I'm very open to hearing them.
Hi Mathew,

I'm from Slovak translation team and we currently do not have
localised version of ubuntu.com, or any other similar ubuntu website,
which might be also case for some other smaller teams.
We have translated almost all ubuntu-docs and therefore the best
option for us would be some mechanism which can push this to wiki
pages and this can then be linked using mechanism which Chris is
developing.
Would it be technically possible automatically create wiki pages from
ubuntu-docs?
I know you can create html pages, but this does not help us, as we do
not have website.

Thanks

Laco

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