Plans for a translated documentation website

[Matthew East]

Hi all,

As you know, I've been uploading snapshots of translations of the
documentation onto a website at
http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/index.cc.html (where cc is the language
code). (All of the translations have also been uploaded to Ubuntu,
Kubuntu and Xubuntu now!)

It's great to have localised web pages, but we need to think about which
languages we're going to host there. At the moment, only two languages
have at least all the Ubuntu documentation translated (Korean and
Swedish) and only one language (Korean) has both the Ubuntu _and_
Kubuntu documentation all translated. (Well done Korean translators!)
Lots of other languages have made amazing progress, but very few have
finished translating everything (understandably).

Obviously hosting partially translated documentation will result in bits
of English, and bits of the translated language, which doesn't look very
good.

Hopefully, as time goes forward, more languages will be complete, but
for now, we need to think about which languages we want to host on the
website.

Do we just go for everything that we have (even languages who have only
localised the frontpage, and none of the documents)? Do we only host
languages which have completed all of the documents? Or do we draw the
line somewhere in between? If so, where?

These are quite difficult questions I think, so I'd like to hear all
your feedback (translators, docteam, loco-contacts).

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Matt
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