--- Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jakub Vrana wrote: > > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> Hey, what do you guys think of taking advantage > of our big international > >> doc team to translate the main web site pages as > well? It is a much > >> smaller project than translating the manual and > we already have the > >> language choosing mechanisms and everything in > place. > > > > Let's give it a try. I concur that we should try it, and I can get some people here in Peru who would like to contribute to something like this. > > > >> The biggest > >> problem is figuring out whether we should try to > pull the text parts out > >> of the current pages and keep them somewhere > separate, or simply clone > >> the pages in individual /en /fr /de /ja top-level > directories. > > > > I vote for pulling the text parts. Modifying > multi-lingual pages in > > separate directories is a big pain. > > Yeah, I have some ideas for this one including a > translation queue of > some sort that would make it easy for people to > contribute short > translations without having to know anything about > the underlying > mechanisms. That could even be used for user notes > if it worked well. > Let me think about it for a bit. > > -Rasmus We can start simple, with something that works for the main site, but could be extended for the notes. The notes management has improved over the years, but there is still room to make it better. One thing that might be useful is the old idea of having a mechanism for an editor to express his/her interest in a particular sections of the manual (e.g. the MySQL section) and then get a notification when there is a new note there. That way, if we tackle the wholesale translation of the all notes (which might be a bit daunting), this could be better spread among everybody. Cheers. -- Jesus M. Castagnetto Web site: http://www.castagnetto.org/ Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
