On Sep 30, 3:17 pm, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, i don't want to add this feature to the sagemath website without a > warning. with google translate it would be possible to display a > translate-bar on top of the page if the browser language (you can set > it, probably the one of the operating system) is different from > english. it would help people to read it in their language, i could > even expand this to work with the documentation pages... > points of concern: > . translation is maybe very bad, but still better than nothing and > will get better in the future. > . more users with little english abilities learn about sage, is this > good or bad? do we help or harm them? does it make sense to educate > them about sage if sage itself is only in english? this is a > hen-and-egg problem and draws resources from our total volume of > support we can give. > > further > reading:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/translate-your-website-with-go...http://translate.google.com/translate_tools > > i'm for +1, or a test period to see if there are comments.
+1 Do the translations look like the ones available from <http:// translate.google.com/translate>? In those, once you have a translation, if you hover the mouse over a sentence, it shows the original and has the option to "Contribute a better translation". That could be very helpful. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
