Hoi, The difficulty is in predicting what language to use when you do not have a cookie. Obviously, you can select any language you like. Thanks, Gerard
2011/9/28 M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com
No reason not to allow users to select their own language easily, especially given that browser language preferences and location are anything but a surefire predictor of language preference.
2011/9/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
Hoi, Easy.. we recognise where someone is coming from ... check the browser language and dependend on all this we serve what is likely a good match. Thanks, GerardM
2011/9/28 M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com
Translatewiki.net doesn't seem to be much more usable to people who
don't
speak English, coming at it from the front page. Imagine you don't
speak
English, how do you suppose you go from http://translatewiki.net/ to a page with instructions or content in your language? One needs at least rudimentary English skills to be able to figure it out, which is an unsatisfactory solution for what is supposed to be an international project.
2011/9/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
Hoi, The main page at translatewiki.net is not less complicated imho.
However,
it has been localised and we know quite precisely what the state of the translations is. We can pinpoint precisely what needs doing. Thanks, GerardM
2011/9/27 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.neko@gmail.com
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/de http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/en http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Template/es
Few examples of the new meta main page in its templated form which
allows
easier translation. Most translations are greatly outdated
unfortunately
making them essentially useless. A divide and conquer strategy was
applied.
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
2011/9/27 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.neko@gmail.com
Oh, I was proposing something simpler than what I had on my
commons
userpage. Consider something like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:White_Cat/Gen v http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:White_Cat/de Translators only /care/ about the text rather than the style
issues
and
etc. It is difficult enough finding people who can translate but
expecting
them to understand complex use of html, templates and etc is just
too
much.
The feature you mentioned would indeed be a positive thing to
keep
these
pages up to date. We could also have generic translations. For
example
we
expect steward elections frequently, likewise we expect a
wikimania
each
year. It would only make sense if these "current events" are
templated
on
their own.
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
2011/9/27 Mono mium monomium@gmail.com
> Might make sense. > > 2011/9/26 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.neko@gmail.com > > > Meta main page seems to be not very multi-lingual because it
appears
to
> be > > difficult to update. Each translation is more or less outdated
and
often
> > with an outdated/older style. I propose a template structure
where
style
> > info is "removed" into a template and translations only deal
with
words.
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