Re: Language Templates revised

Lenin Dominguez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n,gmane.os.apple.fink.core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 3, 2004, at 7:17 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

>
> On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:31 PM, David H. wrote:
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>> So, is this list correct then:
>>
>>
>> Italian
>> Swedish
>> Dutch
>> Norse/Norwegian
>> Finnish
>> Korean (republic of)
>> Danish
>> Portuguese
>> Russian
>> Arabic
>> Hebrew
>>
>
> I think this is a great strategy!  But I'm a bit concerned about the 
> impact of having too many "empty" language pages on the site at any 
> given time.  Right now, somebody going to the site will first think 
> "Wow, look at all those languages" but if they start clicking on the 
> flags, they quickly find out that we don't have so many.
>
> Why don't we start with 4 or 5 empty languages, (chosen based on your 
> access statistics).  If we successfully recruit volunteers from those 
> places, we can expand to the rest of the list.
>
>   -- Dave
>

I think Dave has a point here.  But I think having all those flags 
makes more people aware of the i18n effort. If anyone clicks a flag 
without translation what appears is a message inviting the reader to 
join the effort. That's an excellent strategy, an as good advertising 
as any.




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