Deb Richardson wrote:
fantasai wrote:
Translations don't seem to be mentioned anywhere in your notes. What are
your plans for hosting and managing translated docs? (We already have
several translators for devmo, so this is relevant *now*.)
I envisioned handling translations much the same way Wikipedia does --
MediaWiki provides facilities that allow "interlanguage linking" between
different translations of related wikis...
A good example is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
You'll notice that the bottom left column is devoted to a large list of
language links -- these link to the different language versions of that
article, and is automatically added to the interface when the
interlanguage links in that article are parsed.
Those links are at the bottom of the page source, and look like this:
[[ar:لينكس]]
[[bg:Линукс]]
[[ca:Linux]]
[[cs:Linux]]
[[da:Linux]]
[[de:Linux]]
[[el:Linux]]
[[eo:Linukso]]
[[es:Linux]]
...
[[ro:Linux]]
[[ru:Linux]]
[[simple:Linux]]
[[sk:Linux]]
[[sl:Linux]]
[[sv:GNU/Linux]]
[[th:ลินุกซ์]]
[[tr:Linux]]
[[vi:Linux]]
[[zh:Linux]]
Those links are enabled through an interwiki link map that we can
customize. So, each language would have an independent wiki, but those
wikis would be related and linked together via these interlanguage
facilities.
The good part is that MediaWiki is already localized into a bunch of
languages, and we can set up and skin new language wikis very quickly as
they're deemed necessary (a list of which you think we need straight off
would be useful).
The bad part is that these interlanguage links have to be added by hand.
This is actually a double-edged sword, however, because it gives us
more flexibility in how we link things together than a fully automated
system would. For example, the English "Linux" article links to the
Netherlands "Linux-kernel" article, and to the Svenska "GNU/Linux" article.
There would be some coordination required between language teams to
ensure that links (and backlinks) are all added. I could see that being
coordinated through a mailing list -- any time someone creates a
translated article, they just post its availability on the list, and
others can take care of ensuring that their language wiki links to it
properly.
~ deb
Would that make the link
http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/index.php/JavaScript:References:Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference
to
http://de.developer.mozilla.org/docs/index.php/JavaScript:References:Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference
?
This looks kinda horrible, doesn't it?
And the interwiki link would be
[[de:JavaScript:Referenz:Core_JavaScript_1.5_Referenz]]
? (No idea if "core" would be translated or left in denglish.)
Axel
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