the wiki requires at least the
first letter in upper-case, so "IT" is probably the best compromise.
I agree that all-caps is the best compromise.
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.
Good point.
In the case of the Documentation, generally... the documents start out
in English. For maintenance and simplifying things, it is easiest
(best?) of those page names (URLs) stay in English regardless of language.
For pages that are specific to a language or L10N project, I see no real
need to make the URL English. There is no need for a common URL.
This would require a little thought though when a new page is being
created. We would have to ask the question, will the new page be
translated to other languages? If yes, then is it necessary to
standardize the URL? Standardizing the URL becomes more important when
the Wiki Article will be included in a Master Collection for publishing
outside the Wiki, or if we will want to or need to include the new page
in an pass with the WikiBot to auto-generate InterWiki links.
Let me clarify the Collection thing a little. A Collection is a list of
Wiki pages that is used to build a PDF or ODT document. We are using
this tool to be able to take snapshots of the documentation at a
release, and to give people an easy way to read the documentation
offline. If we have Localized Wiki URLs for pages that will be included
in books, then each collection will need to be manually managed for each
language the document is available in. If the URLs are standardized to
one language, then maintenance (adding/removing pages to the Collection
etc.) can be more automated.
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
even if a corresponding English page will likely never exist? And should
we use English in the URI anyway?
In this case, the only thing I would suggest is to put the page at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/IT/Italian_Page_name
This is a page that is specific to the Italian community, will not be
included in a Master Collection, and is unlikely ever to be localized
into other languages. In this case, the original page can set the
Article title. There is no need for it to be in a "common" language.
Although maybe this means all English pages should be "EN/pagename".
Good question... do we move at least the key pages to EN/pagename? Or
do we say that English is the base language on the OOoWiki and leave
them as is?
C.
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