Re: [Audacity-translation] Wiki translation

[Samuel M. (Groenkloof) <sa...@tr...>]

ga...@au... wrote:

> Obviously many of the pages are not yet complete enough
> to be translated, but some are, so this raises again the general issue
> of what method we should be using for Wiki translation.

Well, if you think of a wiki as something that anyone can edit, you'll 
notice that there is no such think as wiki translation, unless the 
translated versions are static versions of the English.  What I mean is 
that even if you translate the English page into Italian, another 
Italian contributor might come along and add a lot of Italian content 
that is not in the English, and vice versa.  Now imagine this situation 
with 10 languages.  Eventually the content of each language version will 
be so different, and they will develop and split and merge in different 
ways.  Is this truly what you want?

I guess one way to encourage independent editing in multiple languages 
is to have a core set of information (in English) that is translated, 
and that any additions to pages in other languages must be done in a 
separate section of the page, so that there is a clear distinction 
between content that is independently submitted and content which must 
be a true reflection of the English version.

So I guess the first priority is to decide on a policy with regard to 
the above.  When that is decided, we can look at various ways of dealing 
with it.

Samuel (not a wiki expert)


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Samuel Murray
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Decathlon, for volunteer opensource translations
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