On 20/02/2013 Samer Mansour wrote:
Here is a wiki page where I placed two solutions down: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Websites+Translation Language specific pages could be replaced with a redirection to the new solution until Google other search engines pick it up.
A few quick observations here (while it is very good to approach the problem):
1) Unsolicited machine translation must be avoided. You will meet opposition to an automatic translation, and a strong argument is that poorly-worded pages will be dangerously similar to scam sites. So, if at all present, machine translation must come from a visitor's choice (like clicking on a "Machine translation into: [Select]" link).
2) A point that Rob already made: we might have some convergence, but in general we must keep the flexibility for native-lang subdirectories to offer different/additional content with respect to the English site.
3) The PO approach has already been discussed on the dev list some months ago. See http://markmail.org/thread/4j3dbsfp5trwnycu . A tool that already supports everything for a HTML-PO-HTML workflow is GNUN: http://www.gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/gnun/gnun.html (I'm not saying it is usable as it is, but it might be something to look at).
Regards, Andrea.
