Le 11/06/11 00:57, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean,
> I have now looked at the German wiki pages you referenced. They are much more > complete and better organised than anything the English team has done. > Perhaps we should have someone translate these pages to English, if we can > find someone (more than one person) to do it. Oh, there are so many things we > could do if we only had enough people to do them! Silverstripe came with an automatic linking system for translations, but it got turned off after discussion because it was felt : 1) that the English (or International) part of the site should be the lead and reference for other parts of the site ; and 2) the translated pages which were automatically linked to the original end being part of the native-lang subsite and not in the corresponding EN part of the wiki. At the moment, if you want to translate on the wiki, you have to have 2 windows open, the first with the original language wiki page, and the second, a new wiki page on the English part of the site. For me, quite frankly, this is too much of an effort when the underlying system already has the capability to link translations automatically to the underlying original document. I don't like wikis in general anyway because they tend to end up having stuff all over the place, improperly indexed or categorized and it just seems to be a free-for-all. The wiki was set up knowingly with an extremely open approach to encourage contribution, but the downside of this free ranging management is that anyone can contribute anything and put it anywhere they more or less want, and name it in more or less anyway they want to. So much for having a cohesive, easy to search, easy to update, and easy to maintain information system. Trying to find out whether something has been updated, or even if it already exists, requires a lot of effort on the part of those who are conscientious enough not to want to waste their time writing something that has already been done or something similar. I can translate from German to English, French to English and back again no problem, but I will not trawl the wiki in search of things that "need translating" from one to the other. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
