Dear all,

I just read Yoshiki's post about wish of Latin American countries to 
have EToys in Spanish and there are already wishes to have our 
www.squeak.org in Spanish too. So, shall we start thinking about having 
our website in many languages?

I'm personally fan of that idea but with some preconditions:

    1. Every supported language must have a sub-community willing to 
translate and maintain content in their language. Maintaining 
consistently and long-term! If this precondition is not met, we better 
don't support that language.

    2. We need to upgrade website to be able to support many languages 
and easily make translation of content between them.

We can copy the Wikipedia way of supporting multilingual entries where 
every language has its own but usually not the same description of some 
term. This way is to be considered too. We can have only the same basic 
structure and titles of the content, but every language sub-community 
has a freedom to describe the title by their own. Ok, some content must 
obviously be the same in all languages, but this can be the exception of 
the rule.

We can also provide the notification of changes of content (RSS, 
e-mail), so that communities will be able to react to the changes fast.

Best regards

Janko Mivšek
Web Team leader