If he doesn't do it i will lol! :)

Eric

2007/9/5, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org>:

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
>
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