Re: Articles

At 15:13 +0100 23/10/03, Richard Ishida wrote:
>All,
>
>I have mentioned once or twice my idea of creating a set of 'articles'
>on i18n topics to accompany the guidelines and faqs.  This was given
>additional impetus when I looked at the Netscape DevEdge site
>http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/ a little while back.  My current
>plan is to slowly convert the longer items in the Hints & Tips section
>of our site http://www.w3.org/International/resources.html#hints to
>either faqs or articles linked to by a new page.   I have mocked up such
>a page at
>
>http://www.w3.org/International/articles.html

The following links don't seem to link the appropriate pages.
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
(links to FAQ: Two-letter or three-letter language codes)

Dates and time
(links to FAQ: Styling using the lang attribute)
Writing Systems Tutorial
(links to FAQ: Bidi space loss)

Or Have I missed something?

Regards, Najib

>
>to show the idea.
>
>I see the articles as less focussed and slightly longer than a typical
>FAQ, but they should still be written to a specific brief and remain
>concise.  I think this is an ideal way to point to additional material
>that supports the guidelines, eg. the background info on inline bidi.
>
>Note that I have added links to a number of articles from my own site
>just to add bulk here.  We should consider whether it is appropriate to
>incorporate them for real in our list of articles.
>
>I think we need to discuss the following:
>
>A. Should we limit contributions to the GEO group participants?  For
>example, Kat Momoi wrote a very good article for DevEdge on IDN
>http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/idn/
>
>B. Where should articles be located? - for example, if we do include the
>articles of mine that I've put on the mockup page, I'd prefer to do it
>as an automatically updated copy (that uses whatever style we decide on
>for our articles) and continue to serve my articles on my own site too.
>I don't think we should simply link to locations outside the W3C site.
>
>C. What level of review should be required for such articles.  I believe
>the articles should be carefully reviewed by the group, just like FAQs
>or guidelines, so that we can claim that they are authoritative.  We
>should not simply include stuff that people have written that 'contains
>some useful bits'.
>
>D. Should this be open to submissions from other parts of the i18n WG
>(eg. Core or WS), rather than just GEO contributors.  My feeling is that
>yes it should be.  Do we want to review that before publication though?
>
>Comments and suggestions?
>
>RI
>
>
>============
>Richard Ishida
>W3C
>
>contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
>
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>http://www.w3.org/International/geo/
>
>See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page
>http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html


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