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
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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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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