I agree with this.  We have to consider many factors, like what the
document is, and who can translate it/verify the translation.  Right
now, we have exactly one person per language (except I guess we have
two for Czech), so our ability to verify translations, much less make
them is very limited.  If we tried to do it outside of Code-In, we
would have to drop the review requirement, as there's simply no one
else to verify it, which makes me a little uneasy about it. As was
mentioned earlier, it's better to have no translation than a poor
translation, and while I'm not saying that anybody is poor at
translating, the fact is, with no quality assurance, we simply don't
know how good it is.

But I agree that some things, like the webpage or Wikipedia articles,
are very good to translate for outreach purposes.

So Ondrej, with your work, is
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7127301
still relevant?  If so, can you update it with what still needs to be
done?  Otherwise, let's close it.

Aaron Meurer

> Language competence isn't a binary thing. I'm sure that a large majority
> of French Python programmers can understand a typical docstring, but
> most of them are probably not comfortable reading a long text in
> English. Having a tutorial in French can give them an easy entry point,
> allowing them to decide whether it's worth their time to make the effort
> of understanding the rest of the docs.
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