Le Monday 05 November 2007 12:15:27 Frank Peters, vous avez écrit : Hi Frank, and everyone else :-)
> I am dreaming ;-) of a real time switching solution that > allows one to switch languages on a certain wiki page > which at the same time would it make easy to localize a page. > I'll raise here a few points I've just raised on the French N-L doc list : 1) How do we prevent this from becoming labyrinthine, or rather, how can we ensure that a user will find the docs that they are looking for, other than by drilling down through the wiki ? 2) If I enter a search term in French, will it search for anything related thereto and point to links to stuff in other languages ? In my experience, no (the same can be said of OOoAuthors BTW). For me, that represents one hell of a handicap. Not just as a user of the doc, but also as a voluntary translator. We all know that each language culture finds another's form of expression more or less important or appropriate, and this is ostensibly true of documentation. What might be an excellent tutorial in one language could be completely inappropriate when translated, unless the translation is also adapted to that language's own cultural practices. 3) Can we not have a mechanism whereby any new documentation published on the wiki is signalled to a system like an IssueTracker for translators, to which volunteer translators would subscribe and be informed in real-time (sic) of the new documents made available ? The translator could then volunteer to take up the work, relinquish it or redelegate it to someone else (or the community at large) according to the circumstances. I don't see any possibility for this at the moment with the current infrastructure, but maybe I'm wrong. If we can't organise the submissions and work in some kind of coherent way, the wiki will rapdily become a nightmare to navigate in. This would also be beneficial to Sun's in house translation service, since, if I've understood correctly, there may be elements of interest that Sun might include in its own documentation and taken from the wiki, although I doubt that the resources are available to have someone trawl the wiki for new content unless this is flagged in some way that is accesible in an easy to use manner. Just a few thoughts and suggestions, I honestly don't know whether any of this is doable ;-) Alex Thurgood --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
