Cl?ment wrote: > On Sunday 14 June 2009 00:16:45 Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Does the new windows installer set up Freenet to use the correct language? >> Obviously it asks you, but after that does the node use the correct >> language? And does it pick up the system locale in the first place? IIRC >> the language selection isn't very obvious? >> > > Maybe the user wasn't refering to freenet itself, but to the website. > > Imo, we need a translated website in all suported language, because a user > who > don't speak english won't know how to install it.
Agreed. Theoretically, that is. In practice, we have one translator per language. and translating the website + wiki + keeping the translations updated would be a lot of work. Maybe, we could encourage the creation of local freenet communties that are 'federated' with the project and authorized to use its name (freenetproject.de, freenetproject.uk (for British spelling :P ), freenetproject.fr, and so forth). Such communities could keep their own localized howtos and (most important) support forums in their own languages. B U T While getting started such communities started may be relatively easy in Germany and most of all in France where Freenet use is fairly popular evn in local languages, in other places, e.g. Spanish-speaking countries, but also Italy, Greece, etc, the use of Freenet is limited to users who do know English, for the very simple reason that there is little of no content in non-Engish languages other than French and German. Therefore, the first thing to do would be to try and get bilingual (and multilingual) users NOT to stick with English because it's the mnost widely known, but do the exact opposite: insert more content in other languages, just *because* English is most popuylar (someone will insert English content anyway) Once Spanish, Italian, and Bangladeshi content is available, a whole lot of users from Spain and Soputh America, Italy and Bangladesh who only know that little bit of English that is necessary to get Freenet up and running, would access content in their own languages and *start insterting more* content in that language because that's the kind of content they use. In other words (and shorter) it's about bootstrapping.
