[Webteam] Our website in other languages too?
Janko Mivšek
janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Mon May 26 09:09:20 UTC 2008
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
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