Re: [Audacity-manual] Translation of manual?

[Peter S. <pet...@gm...>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:42 PM James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:

> At the top of our alpha manual, and therefore in our offline manual and
> static copy we say:
>
> "Translation volunteers welcome... If you'd like to help translate this
> Manual to other languages, please write to our feedback address for an
> account on this wiki."
>
> However, we know that noone translates the entire manual, an incomplete
> translation is of little use


I have noted over the years that Manual translators get all fired up for a
little
while and then fall by the wayside.

It is a a hard job to keep up with all the changes that take place (it's
hard enough
doing that in English) so I do sympathise.

and translating the Audacity UI is far more
> important.


+1

In practice we ask people who are interested in translating
> the manual to translate the FAQ, and if they have energy the tour guide
> too.
>
> A small additional problem with the current wording is that the offline
> and static version are not 'this wiki'.
>
>
> I'm proposing that:
>
> - Either we drop the line entirely.  OR
> - We change it to:
>
> "Translation volunteers welcome... If you'd like to help translate the
> most important pages of this manual into other languages, please write
> to our feedback address."
>
> I've a mild preference for dropping the call for translators of the
> manual entirely.
>

+1

I've more than a mild preference for that.

Translation of the app is much more important for my money.

What about getting them to translate WIT ?

Peter.


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> --James.
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