[squeak-dev] Re: [Webteam] Our website in other languages too?

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Mon May 26 09:17:10 UTC 2008


2008/5/26 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
> 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.
>
+1

I can help with translation on Russian.
And some people from http://smalltalk.ru/ may help too, i think :)

> Best regards
>
> Janko Mivšek
> Web Team leader
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.


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