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

Oliver Burger oliver.bgr at googlemail.com
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


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