[l10n-dev] Re: [native-lang] Re: [l10n-dev] How do we handle L10N in the OOoWiki?

[Clytie Siddall]

On 19/07/2008, at 7:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

(Replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too as per Sophie's request)

On 15/07/2008 ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:

We could start using the ISO_code/subpage structure like the German
language example above

I completely agree.

Let's just decide on the capitalization to use ("IT" or "It") and the
Italian team will convert all Italian pages on the Wiki.

Clayton has told us on the l10n list that the wiki requires at least the first letter in upper-case, so "IT" is probably the best compromise.

what does everyone else think?  Is this moving

 Please give your thoughts and comments..

in the right direction? Is there a better way to start organizing this?

I find a flaw in the idea that non-English pages on the Wiki are
localized versions of English pages.

Yes indeed. I was wondering about that, since my team has several original pages in Vietnamese.

During OOoCon 2007 the Wiki was discussed and recommended as an
alternative to *.openoffice.org web pages when the CollabNet

Wiki do not have a corresponding English page.

It would be nice to come up with a structure for those pages too. For
instance, the page for Italian presentation at Linux Day 2006 is
currently placed at the (ugly) URI
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Italian_Linux_Day_2006
Should we put it at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/IT/Italian_Linux_Day_2006

we use English in the URI anyway?

infrastructure made them hard to write or maintain. So some pages on the even if a corresponding English page will likely never exist? And should

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n

I suggest that the original page decides the pagename. That way, "IT/ Italian_Linux_Day_2006" is the original page, and if I translated it into Vietnamese, it would become "VI/Italian_Linux_Day_2006". An English version would be simply "Italian_Linux_Day_2006". Although maybe this means all English pages should be "EN/pagename". Clayton says we can changeover a large number of pages using a WikiBot, e.g. move all "pagename_vi" pages to "VI/pagename". We just make a list of the changes we need, then send them to him. Also, for individual pages, we can change the name ourselves (move the page). And the {{DISPLAYTITLE:Your_localized_title}} tag makes it possible for us to distinguish the URL from the page title.

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