RE: localization of GNOME.org

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc 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.

And the translations will be incomplete and quickly out of date. People
then won't read the translations because they won't trust them as much as
the originals. Translation needs to be done properly.

I already notice that live.gnome.org delivers mostly-empty pages on
Browsers that are configured to request German. That's a broken web site.

> 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
>
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