Sounds good to me! I guess you are volunteering to be the FR maintainer :D
.hc On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:23 PM, JNM wrote: >> Marius wrote: > > > >> Honestly, I think english is the language to use. who will >> translate pd >> help into chinese, russian, german, french, portuguese, spanish... > > > Many people.... > it's not a problem when the documentation is an open and collective > process and a permanent work-in-progress. > Wikipedia shows that an open collaborative documentation can > interest many different communities. Other languages appear when > other communities or personnalities need the translations. That's the > force of an open source project. > > For example: we have selected fifty basic objects to learn in our PD > evening-courses. For this fifty objects we will translate all the > fifty PDpedia pages (in french). Because we have a dozen PD > teatchers, and each PD teatchers can translate few pages. Because PD > students will have to translate some pages, as a gift to an open > source project. Because we don't teach in English. > For our high-level PD workshops, we will translate many other > pdpedia object-pages. And we are a lot of classic or alternative > school to adopt PD instead of Max. In a few years, all 3000 PD > objects could be translated in french. > PDpedia should not be a classic documentation, but a permanent > encyclopedia of each object, a work in progress, a LIVING > documentation like wikipedia, because the process of changing a word > in a page is a matter of seconds and a few clics. > > >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> I've been doing some research on how to handle multiple >>> languages for >>> the pdpedia. I am thinking of setting up the URL structure like >>> this: > > > about the url structure, I think it's less important than the > facility to reach the localised page, like in wikipedia. That's one > of the reason why we started a rapid test with wikimedia engine > instead of another wiki engine > http://pdpedia.dreamhosters.com/index.php , because of the experience > in multilingual encyclopedy. ( and because all websurfers know the > clear interface of wikipedia) > > ciao viva > > JN > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she said, hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out another pink-collar temp pool day. - “Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
