RE: localization of GNOME.org

[Hugh Buzacott <hugh buzacott gmail com>]

My suggestion for the website is simple; a wiki with different languages in
the first subdirectory (e.g. gnome.org/en/ or gnome.org/de/, etc.). With a
wiki anyone (I repeat ANYone) who can speak German, English, Swedish or any
of the other forty odd languages that GNOME supports can create text for
their localised site. Even those who have no technical experience at all.

btw. I am rewriting (yet again) the website to use JavaScript to detect
language and automatically show the corresponding page. I have also
rewritten 'wiki of GNOME' and will be sending that soon it should be out
tomorrow evening (I am sending this at about 8:00 my time, So my tomorrow).

Thanks,
Hugh Buzacott

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rose [mailto:menthos gnome org] 
Sent: Monday, 17 October 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: localization of GNOME.org (and some other side notes)

This has been said in the past whenever web site localization was
discussed on this list, but maybe it is time to say it again: The
GNOME Project already has many hundreds of volunteer translators
involved in the GNOME Translation Project, and many of them would
probably be interested in translating the gnome.org web site as well.
However, in order to make that option attractive at all and make it
even possible to integrate with the existing translation system, the
web site translation must use the gettext PO format for translations.

Not using the gettext PO format that everything else in GNOME uses
would be a big mistake and a waste of resources in my opinion, for
that reason. You may want to seriously consider that.


Christian