Hi Clayton,
I started translating the Developer's Guide into French a long, long, long :-))
time ago, before it was wikified, but I don't know now what happened to it.
There might well be some pages that have been translated within the French
documentation hierarchy, but as someone mentioned the other day on the French
list, it is a bit of a mess because there are (were) two different page
referencing systems in place. To put it into a historical perspective, the
French NL project was very profuse in native language French documentation
production before the English language even took off. Since I am no longer very
active in the documentation process, I'm afraid I can't help you any more than
that.
Alex
----- "Clayton" <ccorn...@openoffice.org> a écrit :
> (Cross-posted to the Documentation mailing list)
>
> One the things we've added (some time ago) to the OOoWiki is a
> feature
> to link pages that have been translated so that you can see all
> languages that Wiki page is available in.
>
> The Wiki syntax is:
>
> [[iso_lang_code:Wiki_article]]
>
> For example,
> [[zh:Zh/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide]]
> adds a link to the Chinese translation of the first page of the
> Developer's Guide. This link shows in the left column, under the
> heading "In other languages".
>
> Advantage:
> - this provides an easy to use and consistent link style to link the
> Wiki pages that are translated.
>
> Disadvantage:
> - as a page is translated into more languages, the maintenance
> becomes
> a problem because you must open and edit each translated page to add
> a
> link for a new localization.
>
> Solution:
> - use a Template.
>
> I've created a template we can use for the Developer's Guide.
>
> The Wiki Syntax is:
>
> {{Documentation/DevGuideLanguages|Page_Name}}
>
> where Page_Name is the current Wiki page name.
>
> For example:
> {{Documentation/DevGuideLanguages|Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org
> Developers Guide}}
> Will add the localized page links for the first page in the
> Developer's
> Guide.
>
> Currently those localized links are: Bulgarian, English and Chinese.
>
> If one of the NL teams begins translating the Developer's Guide into
> a
> new language, they will have to:
>
> 1. Add the new language to the template:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:Documentation/DevGuideLanguages
> For example to add Dutch to this template, you would edit the
> Template
> and add: [[nl:NL/{{{1}}}]]
>
> 2. Make sure the template is referenced correctly in each of the
> translated pages. Once the Template is added to the English master
> document (my action), you should only need to be sure that the
> template
> is still referenced in your translated page.. no additional action
> should be necessary.
>
> Advantage:
> - maintenance is reduced to a minimum, and new localizations of this
> manual automatically show up on all translations.
>
> Disadvantage:
> - after adding the new language to the Template, pages that have not
> yet been translated will show as red links in the "In other languages"
> box.
>
> Action:
> I will pass the WikiBot over the known localized pages (Chinese and
> English) to remove the existing InterWiki links, and replace them
> with
> the Template link.
>
> The Bulgarian translation of this document has just started. Other
> than
> the first page of the Developer's Guide, have any other pages been
> prepared or translated?
>
> Are there any other localization efforts underway for the Developer's
> Guide?
>
> If you have any questions on this, please speak up.
>
> C.
> --
> Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org
> OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
> StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
>
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