Wiki (was: Re: [UbuntuWomen] ubuntu-women website)

[Maria Soler]

mmm :D I was just wondering how could I translate the ubuntu-women page
into catalan before I started reading your mail! Great explanation. I'll
try it this week and I'll report my questions...

Maria

(When I introduced myself I forgot to mention that I am translating
Gnome with the catalan translation team :D )

El dg 19 de 03 del 2006 a les 15:34 +1030, en/na Clytie Siddall va
escriure:
> On 19/03/2006, at 4:02 AM, || vid || wrote (in part):
> 
> >  The current wiki page for UW has some
> > information with a goal statement, links to other pages and external
> > links to linuxchix.org, debian, Gnome. Would someone be willing to
> > rewrite it (Clytie, had offered to include some translation details
> > earlier). It should also be setup in a manner that can facilitate
> > translations into other languages.
> 
> Sorry it took me so long to get onto this. Now I don't have the Gnome  
> release breathing down my neck, and I've got that awful Mailman file  
> translated, you have the cream of my abilities at your disposal (this  
> is where you close the wiki and leave the country :D ).
> 
> I've added to the U-W wiki page, information and links, and created a  
> translation bar.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen
> 
> The table at the top, saying Ubuntu-Women, makes formatting very  
> difficult. I spent the same amount of time as I spent on the text,  
> trying to work around that table. I wanted to put the translation bar  
> under the (automatic) page title, but I couldn't work out how to do  
> it. Since we get a large, prominent page title automatically, could  
> we dispense with the title table? Svaksha, if you put some time into  
> that, I'm sorry to recommend removing it, but it really is hard to  
> work with. MoinMoin doesn't seem to faciliate vertical spacing of  
> text and tables. (Or maybe I just don't know how to do it. ;) )
> 
> I've created my translation page, so I could have a textual link,  
> using the language name, not UbuntuWomenVi as the link, which  
> mightn't make any sense at all to people from my community (Ubuntu  
> Women is Phụ nữ Ubuntu). I won't do the translation until we've  
> mostly finalized the original text, to avoid having to re-do it much.  
> I used the model PageNameLL, where LL is your language code (e.g. Vi  
> for Vietnamese). All you need to do, to add your translated page is:
> 
> (Firstly, login: you can use your Launchpad login, or create an  
> account: it's easy.)
> 
> (Note that in your User Preferences, you can list some pages that  
> will always appear at the top of your Ubuntu wiki pages: you might  
> want to list
> 
> UbuntuWomen
> UbuntuWomenLL
> 
> (your language code, case sensitive: UbuntuWomenFR isn't the same as  
> UbuntuWomenFr: I'm using the second style)
> 
> to start with. You can always come back and change this.)
> 
> 1. Edit the main page: add the name of your page to the translation  
> bar, which looks like this:
> 
> ||<rowbgcolor="#feecd8"> This page in || [wiki:UbuntuWomenVi Việt  
> ngữ] ||
> 
> All you need to do is add your pagename, and another double-pipe,  
> e.g. for French:
> 
> ||<rowbgcolor="#feecd8"> This page in || [wiki:UbuntuWomenVi Việt  
> ngữ] || UbuntuWomenFr ||
> 
> (or you can put your language before mine, rearrange the bar any way  
> you like).
> 
> You can't put the language name yet, not until you've created the  
> page by naming it, opening it, entering text and saving it.
> 
> 2. Save the original page.
> 
> 3. Click on your language link in the translation bar, in this case,  
> on UbuntuWomenFr, which will show a question mark, because that page  
> hasn't been created yet.
> 
> 4. Your page will open, with a number of suggestions. Click on  
> Category Template (the same kind of page as the original). I think  
> that's what it's called. The closest thing to Category Template, anyway.
> 
> 5. Change the language code at the top to your language code. In this  
> case, "fr" for French.
> 
> 6. Write something in there. I put, in my language, "This translation  
> will be created when the original text has been finalized.", and left  
> the instructions about categories, because I want to come back to  
> that. (I don't know how to comment-out text there yet.)
> 
> 7. Save your page
> 
> 8. Go back to the original Ubuntu-Women page. Click on Edit. You can  
> now change your pagename link in the Translation Bar. You create an  
> internal wiki link, of the syntax: [wiki:PageName some text] :
> 
> |<rowbgcolor="#feecd8"> This page in || [wiki:UbuntuWomenVi Việt  
> ngữ] || UbuntuWomenFr ||
> 
> becomes
> 
> |<rowbgcolor="#feecd8"> This page in || [wiki:UbuntuWomenVi Việt  
> ngữ] || [wiki:UbuntuWomenFr Français ||
> 
> 9. Save the original page.
> 
> All done! Then you can go back and edit your translation when the  
> original page is finalized, and whenever you want to change it.
> 
> Hmm, it might be an idea to make this a wiki page, How to translate  
> this wiki page ... off to the Wiki again!
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
> 
> 
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