www.LANG.gnome.org translation

[Francesco Levorato <lists flevour net>]

Hi all!
This is my first post to the list, so I will be presenting rapidly. I
will be rapid for 2 main reasons: I like to get to the point fast and
its almost 2AM here. I am a Computer Science student, writing from
Italy, interested in whatever concerns web development. I am joining
this list for 2 main reasons (yes, I love to be schematic): I
volunteered to help manage it.gnome.org and I visited this page [1] and
opened all the different languages pages in new tabs. The main problem I
noticed is that a common UI is missing. gnome.org presents itself in a
consistent way, it.gnome.org in another one,  *.gnome.org in one more.
In my opinion, all sites of the form www.LANGCODE.gnome.org should be a
_translation_ of www.gnome.org. With translation I mean, same content
(translated of course), same graphics, same place for links (after all
one of the GNOME main concerns is about usability, isnt it?).
Sites of the form www.gnome.LANGCODE should be free to follow whatever
design they like, since they are not subdomains of gnome.org. I had no
time yet to check how the whole Web-Thing at gnome works, so this
proposal could be really stupid or operatively unaffordable. Forgive if
the issue has already been discussed, but I felt the need to post this
message now for the fear of forgetting all
ths impressions (the period till Xmas is going to be really hard and
busy for me).
I have already discussed this topic in the #webhackers IRC channel and
it was agreed that the main problem would be the translation management.
I am posting here to collect ideas, impressions, pros and cons.
Thanks for your attention, I hope not to have bored you,
flevour

[1] http://www.gnome.org/contact/