Re: slovak pages are not linked

Ruth Kusterer wrote:
>> 1. Slovak translations of web pages is not linked. Why?

As Ruth says, I see Slovak translations linked from the language menu
of, eg

   http://www.netbeans.org/
   http://www.netbeans.org/community/contribute/
   http://www.netbeans.org/community/lists/

etc.  Do you not see the links ?

>> 3. Please make auto selection of language in javascript.

That's an interesting idea, and possible.  I think we discussed this once
but decided against it, maybe time to rethink.

>> 4. Why is not page under CMS like wikipage? Translation can be done, 
>> manage and upload easily. See http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy 
>> for example
> 
> You mean https://translations.launchpad.net/ ? We are redesigning the 

I think Peter simply means why isn't our content in a Wiki, so it is
easily editable.  Unfortunately the infrastructure netbeans.org is running
on does not include Wikis (though we did request it a long time ago).  We
have an off-site Wiki for FAQ content and some developer content :

   http://wiki.netbeans.org/

> The reason we do not auto-select the localized page is that the 
> contributors usually never come back to maintain the pages, and we don't 
> want to forward users to potentially out-dated pages (e.g. with links to 
> old downloads).

Thanks Ruth!  I couldn't remember the exact details.  That was certainly
once true, but we have a much stronger and more active translation community
now, perhaps time to rethink ?
 

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Jack Catchpoole
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