Re: Localized sites (was Re: Jumping in...)

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> > This is indeed welcome, and brings up some things I've been thinking about
> > for a while. Specifically, there are a few nationalized mirrors around the
> > world (most notably the German and Italian ones, at least those are the ones
> > I've seen). These tend to be done separately from the main site, at most
> > using some of the graphics from it, etc.
> >
> > In my ideal world, the sites would all be generated from the same place,
> > using the national language as the default, overridable by browser settings
> > and probably also a menu on the site. This would mean that every national
> > mirror would also be a mirror of the entire GNOME site in all languages,
> > which would help offload traffic and so on.
>
> I think a good solution might involve a main web site that is the same
> everwhere but translated, this would be the main page:
> http://www.de.gnome.org/, and then language and maybe country-specific
> sections that are prominently linked to off of that, say,
> http://www.de.gnome.org/de/.

Exactly. I think this was also our idea with http://www.se.gnome.org (I 
_think_ this was the consensus of that discussion).

The root of the site would be a synced mirror, the only differences 
maybe being that the "default fallback language" used if the user 
doesn't have language preferences set in the browser would be the local 
language instead of English, and a special menu item that takes the user 
to a subdirectory, like http://www.se.gnome.org/se/, where all 
language-specific content is stored (GNOME events in that country, GNOME 
news in that language, and maybe a homepage for that GNOME language 
translation team). And maybe local GUGs too (GNOME User Groups ;-P )

Come to think of it, it might be a good idea with two links: one for 
language-specific content ("GNOME in Swedish"; Swedish GNOME news, 
Swedish GNOME translations homepage), and one with country-specific 
content ("GNOME in Sweden"; local GNOME events, local GNOME mirrors, 
local GUGs).


Christian


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