Hi,
On 26/03/2011 23:10, Shaun McCance wrote:
On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 20:35 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
These questions should be directed to Shaun McCance since he's
organizing the Open Help Conference for June. So I've CCed him.
Shaun we're talking about how to manage documentation wiki in multiple
languages - what solutions are there and is LibreOffice aware of them?
Perhaps you can reply with the names of some projects we should be
aware of?
I'm not sure I'm necessarily the person to ask. I'm not the one
making LibreOffice documentation happen. I'm just trying to bring
people together, so they can all share problems and experiences
just like this.
Many projects do a sort of hybrid wiki/controlled documentation
approach. For instance, Ubuntu has built-in help (much of which
comes from upstream projects) which they also build out to the
web. Then they also have their community documentation wiki.
I think theirs is English only though.
The Mozilla Developer Network does have multiple languages, but
I don't know whether they do it with message-based translations
or all-out new content for other languages. I think their site
runs Mindtouch.
And of course, though it's not documentation, Wikipedia is the
most successful multi-lingual wiki ever. I'm pretty sure their
non-English content is written from scratch, not translated.
I don't know if they've got tools in place to make it easier
to borrow content from and track changes to pages in other
languages.
I don't want to push any technologies here. But I'm happy to
share my experiences or connect you to people who can share
theirs.
But they doesn't deliver a product where an explanation on how to use is
mandatory and in the language of the users ? I think we are not talking
about the same products. It's not possible to have the help files only
available on the web and only in English.
We already have a multi lingual wiki for our documentation, it will be
even better when we will have migrated it to language subdomains. But
the help files are different here, it's not an how to use this or this,
it's a description of the functionalities and an obligation to have it
along the product in several countries.
Kind regards
Sophie
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