Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 14:29, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> > That seems like a good way to do it - if we even get translations. A lot
> > of work was put into putting a translation infrastructure for the
> > webpage in place, but AFAIK not a single page (except the FAQs which
> > aren't in the actual website) has been translated.
>
> Well, there's a couple reasons for that:
> 1) there's no documentation that I know of which explains how to translate
> the site.  Nor has any attempt been make to recruit translators.
>

IMHO this is a red herring, since there is documentation that gets you
80% of the way there. Thing is that 80% is such a huge task it's
overwhelming for most folks.

> 2) the translation infrastructure is very much organized around generating
> all new content in English and then pushing it off to the other languages
> to translate, not letting them generate their own content.  This means
> that, for example, postgresql.org.br would need to translate our site
> *and* maintain their own.  Which they're unlikely to do.
>

I'm pretty sure you can create pages in other languages that do not
exist in the english language, but yes, the general idea is that of
making the main site multi-lingual, not for letting everyone do their
own thing... and people like to do their own thing.


Robert Treat
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