Forwarding this one to the localization and sugar-devel mailing list, not sure where add...@sugarlabs.org goes.
Regards, Tomeu On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 15:07, Timothy Falconer <timo...@squeakland.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > We're translating most of the Squeakland (Etoys) website right now into > Spanish and Portuguese, with French soon to come. > You can help too . . . simply claim your language and reply to this message > (to avoid duplication), then read the following: > http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-480 > http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-481 > > We're also writing some grants now, some of which are aimed at our > translation efforts. > Given this, I'm trying to determine a good translation priority list, which > shows the order of languages we want to focus on most. Yes, we'll get > translations first from people that volunteer, and that won't always > correspond to the priority list. But our time (and future hopeful funds) > are limited, so we'd like to concentrate on the languages that will reach > the most new and existing Etoys users. > To get the conversation started, here are the most popular languages in the > world: > 1. Chinese * > 2. Spanish > 3. English > 4. Hindi * > 5. Arabic * > 6. Bengali * > 7. Portuguese > 8. Russian > 9. Japanese > 10. Korean > 11. German > 12. French > (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers, > and several other sources) > Perhaps more telling is this list, which shows the number of wikipedia > articles, which may be a better indicator of computer and web use: > 1. English > 2. French > 3. German > 4. Spanish > 5. Portuguese > 6. Italian > 7. Japanese > 8. Russian > 9. Dutch > 10. Polish > 11. Chinese > 12. Swedish > (from http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php?sort=total_desc) > > More direct to Etoys is our new list of "Squeakers", which has a graph at > the bottom that shows number of users by country: > 1. United States (english/spanish) > 2. Germany (german) > 3. Uruguay (spanish) > 4. Brazil (portuguese) > 5. Canada (english/french) > 6. Argentina (spanish) > 7. Austria (german) > 8. Spain (spanish) > 9. Colombia (spanish) > 10. Bolivia (spanish) > 11. Japan (japanese) > 12. Netherlands (dutch) > (from http://squeakland.org/squeakers/ ... add your name and country!) > > Clearly, these languages merit special effort: > 1. English > 2. Spanish > 3. German > 4. Portuguese > 5. French > And these represent known areas of Etoys use: > 6. Japanese > 7. Korean > 8. Haitian Kreyol > 9. Nepali > Three more to make a list of twelve: > 10. Russian > 11. Italian > 12. Dutch > Do you agree with this list of twelve? What would you add? Where would > you put it in the list, and why? > We of course want to have all languages represented someday, particularly > the starred items in the first list. > We're simply trying to set our immediate goals, given limited time and > resources. > Take care, > Tim > -- > Timothy Falconer > Squeakland Foundation > http://squeakland.org > 610-797-3100 > -- > "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do." ... piaget > > > > > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel