On Friday 07 September 2012 14:29:54 María Leandro wrote:
> Hello.
>
> 2012/9/6 Frederic Muller - DFI <
fred@softwarefreedomday.org>
>
> > On 09/06/2012 10:29 PM, María Leandro wrote:
> > > (A related issue is that it's all too common for the teams
> > > to write their own Wiki pages in English, even if there're
> > > only
> >
> > a
> >
> > > few fluent English-speakers, if any, among the intended
> > > audience. Indeed, I've heard one of them say, “aren't
> > > these wiki pages for DFI only, anyway?”)
> > >
> > > It will be a challenge to organize all languages, probably if we could
> > > add them differently. I'm not against to have a wiki per each language,
> > > however, I'm worried that we will end up with 100 new wiki pages and
> > > nobody to maintain them (as I said... I'm 100% pro-multilingual) but
> > > I'm also aware that not everyone wil know how to look for it even if
> > > this seems really obvious for us.
> > >
> > > To note is that it was already suggested [1] on the
> >
> > planning-ru@
> >
> > > mailing list to establish an entirely separate site for the
> > > Russian-speaking SFD community. Indeed, at this moment we
> > > cannot even refer to
http://sf-day.org/ as the primary
> >
> > source of
> >
> > > information regarding the event, as most of its contents is
> >
> > only
> >
> > > available in English! And as for Russia, it's rather
> >
> > uncommon
> >
> > > for a person here to know English well, if at all.
> > >
> > > If there is a strategy to translate or the admin can add a
> > > translation-plugin I would be happy to make a spanish translation,
> > > however, even if there are a lot of us who can do the work, we still
> > > need the admin of the website to provide us the tool.
> >
> > The wiki has already a few sections translated. Templates in specific
> > languages (and text boxes - check the bottom of
> >
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/ ) have been created for teams
> > who want to use them. moinmoin is language aware on all its key pages.
> > Do check the wiki frontpage : en Español - em Português - en français -
> > हिंदी में - తెలుగు - 繁體中文 - 한국어 . That's 7 languages
> > StartGuide: en Español - en français . That 2 languages.
>
> Wiki has no issue at all.
>
> > I really don't think technology is at stake here. It's more a matter of
> > someone (well more than one someone obviously) putting in the efforts. A
> > wiki is difficult to translate as content changes often. Still all the
> > team pages for Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries are in Spanish
> > (most of), I'd say the same for Turkish pages even if they do not have
> > any template made yet (just saying to the Russian crowd.. "hey just do
> > it! Others have been doing it for a few years now" ;-) ).
>
> If there is already a on-work progress on Spanish I would be happy to push
> it and finish it. However, I need to know what do you have, where do you
> have it and how do you want me to send you the translations. For
> non-English speakers it's important not to only have the wiki translated,
> but also the main web... this is the front end for everything and should be
> a priority over the rest.