localization of the wiki

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I don't think it's a good idea to translate the wiki.  I'd say yes to
translating official documentation but no to community docs.

Community Documentation is meant to be a benefit to a community NOT to
become a burden to them.  The language is meant to be more fluid and
kinda "street level" (common usage) whereas the official docs are
sometimes a bit formal and "stuffy".  So, some of it is very couched
in the culture it's written for.  Plus we have just had a huge
discussion about some pages possibly being out-of-date and in need of
updating.

So i think just let people grab pages they want to translate and
either only use them for guidance and ideas rather than doing a formal
translation of the exact(ish) contents.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 10 December 2013 12:24, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am referring to the community one. the only way i can think of doign it is
> if Moinmoin supports something like pootle where we can pull the strings
> into pootle for translation teams and then roll out pages obviously in that
> translated language.
>
> how does moin moin handle multiple languages already? I am sure l10n support
> would just need to be enabled. Another option would be to give each Loco
> team their own wiki for their respective language
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Hannie Dumoleyn
> <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl> wrote:
>>
>> op 10-12-13 09:00, Jonathan Aquilina schreef:
>>
>> One thing I havent seen discussed is how do we encourage the LOCO teams to
>> translate the wiki as well as have the tags auto added to the Loco pages as
>> well as translated.
>>
>> This is just an idea here.
>>
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>> Jonathan Aquilina
>>
>>
>> Have a look at my comment here: http://pad.ubuntu.com/NEBLAcp4eo
>>
>> How should we handle translated pages?
>>
>> As far as I know, the wiki pages are not translated. There has been some
>> discussion about this. Many LoCo teams have documentation in their language
>> on their site, examples: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/ and
>> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/
>> It is impossible to translate all the wiki pages, but perhaps LoCo teams
>> can translate the most interesting pages and publish them on their own site,
>> it is up to them I guess.
>> Or do you mean: people who contribute to the (official?) wiki help
>> documentation, writing the page in another language than English?
>>
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