Re: New DevMo Roadmap and Progress

Deb Richardson wrote:
> fantasai wrote:
> 
>> Translations don't seem to be mentioned anywhere in your notes. What are
>> your plans for hosting and managing translated docs? (We already have
>> several translators for devmo, so this is relevant *now*.)
> 
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> Those links are enabled through an interwiki link map that we can 
> customize.  So, each language would have an independent wiki, but those 
> wikis would be related and linked together via these interlanguage 
> facilities.

If I have a document translation ready, what should I do with it for now?

> The bad part is that these interlanguage links have to be added by hand. 
>  This is actually a double-edged sword, however, because it gives us 
> more flexibility in how we link things together than a fully automated 
> system would.  For example, the English "Linux" article links to the 
> Netherlands "Linux-kernel" article, and to the Svenska "GNU/Linux" article.

I don't think we really want to use that much flexibility for developer
documentation, since we want to keep translations as parallel as possible.
(This makes it much easier to keep translations up-to-date, since the
correspondance between an update in the original and an update in the localized
version is exact.)

> There would be some coordination required between language teams to 
> ensure that links (and backlinks) are all added.  I could see that being 
> coordinated through a mailing list -- any time someone creates a 
> translated article, they just post its availability on the list, and 
> others can take care of ensuring that their language wiki links to it 
> properly.

Or the translator could take the responsibility of adding the relevant
interlanguage links to all the translations himself, which is more likely
to keep the links up-to-date.

~fantasai