On 01/13/2010 02:52 PM, Mel Chua wrote: >> Do you know how to add several languages in our wiki? > > Poking the iaep metabrain, in case someone else has better ideas... > > I know of several ways of doing multiple languages with mediawiki, none > of which are super-ideal. > > * the way Wikipedia does it - multiple mediawiki installs, one per > language (de.wikipedia.org is a separate install from en.wikipedia.org) > and crosslinks between the different language instances for the same > term/article. There's no real good way to make sure the content in one > language is synced with the same content in another. > > * the way the OLPC wiki does it: all-in-one-mediawiki-instance, with > page titles in the different languages. [[Sugar]] and [[Azucar]], for > instance. Same syncing problem as above. > > * There's a nice Google Translate template at the top (see the blue bar > across the top of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content) that > works pretty well, though it doesn't help people who want to edit in a > language that the page isn't in. > > * Also using http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content as an example: > inline translation (BAD IDEA, does not scale). You can see the French > words inline with the English, and how it makes the page harder to read > for readers of /either/ language (imo). > > I think it matters what we need multiple languages for - do people need > to be able to edit the same page no matter what language they speak, > does a page only need to be editable in one language, do the two > language versions of the same topic need to be in sync or can they > diverge, is it only one or two pages that need to be bilingual, is > machine translation ok, etc? > > --Mel >
Thanks to Mel at least the wonderful Planetarium page describing the Berlin Pilot is live in two languages: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Planetarium Thanks, Simon PS: Mel did as well the translation from German to English!!! _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
