Hi :) I don't know French but i liked their approach. I think i did add a minor page i picked up from somewhere about Base, possibly, but i tried to avoid doing anything too much until the docs team had decided whether they preferred http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Faq or http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/FAQ and also whether to do the sub-pages like this http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Faq/Writer so that the docs team could use pages such as http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Writer for notes more relevant to the docs team itself or for fuller guides rather than Faqs.
Changing the style later on would be a nightmare so i would like to get it right first time but it's the type of thing people have no opinion about until after it's set-up and then criticise which-ever way it's done. I got ditracted by stupid nonsense at work (they wanted to install MS Office 2010 on a few machines but not all of them and change a number of other systems that worked fine to newer systems that we have no idea will work or not). Would it help if i used google-translate to do a mass translation of all the French pages? It would probably be a tad rough! Perhaps a good enough start? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 29/1/12, Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: About FAQ To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 29 January, 2012, 14:08 Le 29/01/2012 10:19, julien2412 a écrit : Hi Julien, > On https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation#FAQ, I read this : > The French Team created an FAQ which is being translated into English > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Faq Yes, that was Tom, I think that put that there, in response to my taking the tree of the French FAQ with the intention of translating it into English. Unfortunately, work commitments got in the way, and I haven't managed to get any further as yet. > > Now here are the questions : > - I want to add a new entry to the FAQ : should I add it in French part, > then it'll be translated by other people ? Or should I add it in English > Faq, perhaps both ? As far as I'm concerned, both. > - Should the FAQ be 1 big page (like English one) or several pages (like > French ones) ? Like I said above, there should already be a skeleton structure in the English FAQ, which I copied over from the French FAQ (but I haven't checked in a while, so things might have changed). > - Is the French Team "officialy" in charge of increasing FAQ then some > people translate in English ? I mean is there a synchronization for example > what about if there's a add in English, should French Team detect it and add > it translated in French Faq ? No, there was nothing official, as far as I know, it was just me being fed up of there being nothing equivalent to what I found was a rather good French approach, and so the easiest thing in my mind was to translate the French FAQ into English (adapting where necessary). > - What about the other languages ? No idea. There doesn't seem to be much synchronisation between the various N-L groups, but that was what each group wanted originally. > - Could there be links (or 1 single link) to FAQ wiki pages from > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/faq/ ? The Silverstripe engine originally had an automatic translation feature, but it was decided early on not to use it (I don't really understand by whom or how that decision was made, or whether it just "happened"). One of the problems, so I understood, was linked to the Virtual Domain linking of such translated pages (i.e. they were not visible to others outside of the project space in which they had been created, it was all somewhat over my head). Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
