Hi Luigi, thanks a lot for taking the time and having such a close look at my question. Thanks also for the advice. All your points make very much sense to me.
Actually I came across the MultiLanguage recipe just recently. I will definitelly check it out more deeply now. Best wishes, Torsten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:49:53 +0200 Von: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: pmwiki-users <[email protected]> Betreff: Tri-Linguality with columns? > > I'd like to have this wiki (http://free-music.uk.pn/) trilingual > (german, english, french). > > The point is that I wanna have all three languages on one page > > next to each other in one column each. > > Your site design is nice to look at, but doesn't fit for your > three-columns concept. > It wastes most users' screen space. > I would suggest, in case you really stick to your three-columns idea, > to switch to a full-screen, free-flow design, something like the > standard pmwiki skin. > > I guess that some easy setup like: > > (:table border=1 width=100%:) > (:cell:) > (:comment HERE STARTS THE GERMAN TEXT SECTION:) > Bla bla bla in German > (:comment HERE ENDS THE GERMAN TEXT SECTION:) > (:cell:) > (:comment HERE STARTS THE ENGLISH TEXT SECTION:) > Bla bla bla in English > (:comment HERE ENDS THE ENGLISH TEXT SECTION:) > (:cell:) > (:comment HERE STARTS THE FRENCH TEXT SECTION:) > Bla bla bla in French > (:comment HERE ENDS GOES THE GERMAN TEXT:) > (:tableend:) > > could be enough for your goal, while being also rather safe for the > editors to understand what goes where. > This is true for the most basic needs. > But, please read on... > > > > I thought this would be a good way to make users aware of the > internationality > > of the discussed issues in the wiki and to have all three languages > equal > > to each other instead of one language below the other would foster > translingual collaboration. > > As far as I can say, you will hardly end up with something sound and > usable. > And even if you will, your community of editors will most probably > **not** follow your plans. > > In all sites of nations where more than one language is officially > spoken (Canada, Switzerland,...) I do not remember I ever saw a real > **working** side-by-side-language site. > And things complicate as you are handling a wiki, virtually edited by > anybody. > > For an international site I would (personally) go for the English > language, and let French and German alone. > > Just in case, you might provide your pages with the MultiLanguage > recipe[1], which is able to take care of both the body of your page > and the SideBar menu. Also, this would positively open the door to > other wide-spoken languages (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese,...) in case > anybody is willing to contribute.[2] > > > Luigi > > > [1] > http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MultiLanguage?from=Cookbook.Multilanguage > [2] Not to mention less widespread languages whose communities are > nonetheless quite active (Dutch, Finnish,...). -- Free Music Podcast - http://www.freemusicpodcast.de/ Free Music Wiki - http://www.free-music.uk.pn/ Ob ? es eine Stille gibt, die so leise ist, dass niemand sie hören kann Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
