Re: [website-dev] Re: [native-lang] Main Page - maybe translate it?

[Clytie Siddall]

Hello all :)

On 18/12/2006, at 3:33 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:38:18AM +0100, Johan Beckers wrote:

Clytie Siddall schreef:

On 17/12/2006, at 1:43 AM, Konrad Stobiecki wrote:

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I tried to imagine that I am an entrepreneur who does not know English. I enter www.openoffice.org and see "Native Language" leading to native projects. But if I do not know English, I leave the web page convinced that I am not able to find the language version of OpenOffice.org that

suits me.

when you don't know what "native language" means, you could guess from
the image.

Well, theres still the image of the worldmap inside that button, so even

Not necessarily. It could be "Our products are distributed worldwide" or "Get our product from different locations" or even "The best product in the world".

I don't like detecting of browser langauge or language by IP or
something for the content of a webpage. It might work well for

work very well for website content.

mirror-selection (select a mirror geographically near you), but doesn't

I don't agree. Content negotiation is designed especially for website content, and language choice is one of its strongest features. It serves content in the language requested by the user, via their browser prefs, _not_ the language of the browser itself, nor of one's location.

the appropriate NL project. Every NL project could place a link to:
OpenOffice.org International, or OpenOffice.org Worldwide.

The big problem is that by far not every nl-project provides the info
the english pages have. You can always visit your NL-project directly
using your <language-code>.openoffice.org - a scheme very widespread
across all possible websites.

But not necessarily known by the user.

So I'd rather not have automatic selection.


everything that is in english, but to create a community in the
respective language. There are lot's of common points of course..

The job of the native-language projects furthermore not not to translate

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

Indeed, but all of us provide a lot of OOo-specific information in the user's language, including a general introduction, download links and help info linked to further info in English. We are the most effective entry point for non-English speakers. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

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