Re: translating web content

Jack Catchpoole wrote:
> Hi webteam people,
> 
> I'd like to start trying to get some more translations of
> web content available - I mean more languages, rather than
> more content for the languages we have (though of course
> that is always welcome too! :-)
> 
> Vincent and Maxym, you are the "translation masters" so far,
> so I would like your feedback on this if you have time.

If you look in your web, you will see that I already translated somes 
pages. And I continue to do somes translations (not in the two last 
months. It was impossible due to my work and my moving).
> 
> I would like to set up a procedure, a programme, for
> translation of web content for new translators.  In the
> last few weeks we had several people send email
> volunteering to help.  Mostly I think they are interested
> in translating the IDE, which I can understand, that must
> be quite challenging and probably more exciting than
> translating web content.
> 
> We happily sent those volunteers over to translatedfiles,
> told them to sign up to users@translatedfiles etc.  I hope
> they are now involved somehow with translations over there ...
> 
> However I was thinking, as a first, small task, it would
> be good if we ask them to translate even 1 HTML page for
> the website - an introductory, "welcome to NB" page which
> explains a few key things, in their native language.  That
> way we immediately have a page that would help that whole
> native language community.
> 
> The Marketing team prepared such an intro page, and I put it
> up yesterday, please check it out :
> 
>    http://testwww.netbeans.org/community/articles/welcome-template.html
> 
> This could maybe serve as a localised home page for the
> whole netbeans.org site, eg www.nb.org/index_fr.html, etc.
ok for me. But the problem is that you have a lot of page that are 
(re)updated automaticaly. As the www.nb.org/index.html
> 
> For people who are interested in translating more web
> content, I thought we should create a list of "essential"
> web docs, ie pages that we feel are the most important
> stuff on the site that a new visitor who does not speak
> english should have access to.
Nice idea for me.
+1
> 
> By doing this I feel that if someone comes in offering to
> help, we can immediately offer them some quick work which
> will greatly help us.  They can then move on to whatever
> else interests them - translating the IDE, or more web
> content.
> 
> I've set up the skeleton of this process already, please
> check it out and let me know what you think.
> 
> On the "contribute" page, I added a section about translating
> and localising the IDE and web content :
> 
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/contribute/index.html
> 
I will translate it.

> That section links to a very basic intro page where I
> include a link to the welcome template, and where we can
> add "essential" docs when we know what those are.  Also
> on that page is a brief intro and pointer to
> translatedfiles.nb.org :
> 
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/contribute/localise.html
I will translate it.
> 
> Feedback and comments very welcome.
> 
> Depending on feedback, I think the next step would be to
> approach all of our volunteer translators and ask them to
> translate this new welcome template.  Then we can start
> to list our other essential docs ...
I will post a mail to nbfrench.
I will also post a mail to a french java forum where somes peoples asked 
if it existed somes french documentations about netbeans.

Vincent

> Thanks.

Thanks for the initiative to list all importants document.