[Mageia-i18n] [proposition] Using Translate extension on Mageia wiki

Tue Oct 18 13:31:15 CEST 2011

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011, 13:11:33 schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
+> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 20:27, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
+> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
+> > 
+> > This extension can significantly ease up maintenance of the translations
+> > with no additional efforts to sync translations with original (automatic
+> > synchronization).
+>
+> Actually, we didn't plan to manage l10n that way, but by having
+> distinct wiki instances per locale (wiki.mageia.org/en/,
+> wiki.mageia.org/fr/ and so on) and interwiki-link them. The same way
+> Wikipedia does it actually (and we used to at MDV as well).
+> 
+> So using this extension means a significant change in how we lay things out.
+
+Since I was away for a few days and had to do some presentation yesterday, I 
+only now could look into this.
+
+Please correct me, if I'm wrong!
+If I understand this correctly, it wil kind of force syncronization between 
+the en wiki and the others.
+
+As I said in last i18n meeting as well as in doc team, I'd like to keep the 
+more important things like
+- really important documentation
+- errata
+- information about the project
+- ...
+in sync.
+But I do see fields in which a dezentralization is important as well,
+e.g. planning an event can be done very nicely using a wiki (like we did for 
+FOSDEM 2011 or MandrivaUser.de does for some time.
+
+Oliver
+