Wiki localization

Xavier Conde Rueda xavi.conde at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 11:21:13 UTC 2007


Hi,

> During yesterday's meeting, we talked about making wiki more localized.
> What is this about ? For example, in french team, we often see french
> users reading english version of pages that have been translated!
> It's because there's no way to see if a page have been translated or
> not.
>
> To solve this problem, i've been discussing with websites team. We're
> thinking about 2 different solutions:
> 1. Patch the wiki to list translations automatically for each page (i've
> dropped a message on infrastructure list this morning, to see if it's
> possible). Then it would be quite simple for us to manage translations
> (but not for infra team that would have to patch wiki).
> 2. Creating subpages, for each page, listing translations. There's a
> test page here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Wikipages
> It would require more effort for translation teams, but less for infra
> team.
>
> Any questions, comments, or ideas ?
>

I've seen some wikis to choose a localized page based on browser's
user language, it would improve the usability, since the user is
presented automatically with a localized page. But I don't how you
enable this feature...

Regards.

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