Re: Spanish Translation of Webplatform

We should get the different translation leaders together along with someone
(or people if possible) who understands MW and hopefully have done/seen
heavily translated wikis before and know the limitations and pitfalls.
Whether they are gathered from a task force call or some other means it
really doesn't matter. From there they can work out the best method for
both MW and translators happy. That team could then be the main translator
team while also having different teams for different languages.

One thing that ties in with translation stuff is how we are going to also
handle it in the project management system. I have a few ideas I am toying
around with, once I have tested some different methods I will email the
list with that information.


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Julee Burdekin <jburdeki@adobe.com> wrote:

> Ok. We have been discussing this on and off for a while. And folks are
> ready and willing to translate. Do we want to do a call for participation
> in a translation task force? And maybe that group can find an interim
> solution, as well as a longer term one?
>
> J
>
>
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> On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:03 PM, "Jonathan Garbee" <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote:
>
> I think we need to hold off on adding the translation menu to the
> homepage. Right now it is only in the beginners guide because that is the
> test area for the translation system. We still don't have the way
> everything will be handled figured out, so it is best to not really promote
> translations like that until things are figured out and documented on how
> that part of the system works. It seems like a lot of work has already been
> done that now needs to be moved due to a possible issue with MediaWiki (see
> the "Translation" thread in the mailing list.)
>
> We need a team of translate leaders to get together and discuss how things
> will work, along with people who understand MediaWiki and what the
> limitations are. Once they decide how translations should be handled and
> get guidelines in place for it, then we can start promoting translated
> articles and that part of the system more. Until then it is just too
> unstable.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Julee <julee@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Nestor:
>>
>> This looks great! Looks like fr0zenice moved your page<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page/es>for you, and resolved the external links by removing the nofollow attribute.
>>
>> As far as having a language bar on the main page. I'm hoping we can
>> implement the new top-level navigation links soon, so
>> would you kindly add your suggestion to the following open task?
>>
>> http://project.webplatform.org/content/issues/14
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Julee
>>
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>> julee@adobe.com
>> @adobejulee
>>
>> From: Nestor Rojas <nestor.rojas@gmail.com>
>> Date: Monday, March 4, 2013 8:00 AM
>> To: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
>>
>> Subject: Spanish Translation of Webplatform
>>
>> Hello webplatform amigos.
>>
>> I started the webplatform translation to spanish language and some pages
>> are already available, so I invite you to take a glance at
>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/es, but I got some small problems with
>> Main Page specifically.
>>
>> First, I'm not sure if I should move the page from
>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/es to
>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page/es in order to be recognized
>> as the spanish translation of that page.
>>
>> Second, I couldn't make it with external links. I guess that webplatform
>> docs should be using "link attributes" extension to insert re="nofollow"
>> and class="external text" into the links. I couldn't succeed and need your
>> help with that. Am I right? Is it using that extension or something else?
>>
>> One last request. Can somebody add the languages bar to the Main Page? I
>> think it is blocked and I can't edit it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance for you kind help.
>>
>>
>>
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