Salut Sébastien,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Seb35 seb35wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I tried last days to mass-translate blog posts of the Foundation’s blog, aiming at building a parallel blog in French with the same posts, translated [1]. Some people are interested in regularly translating blog posts. So my question is: is it possible to make the Foundation’s blog multilingual?
The specific plug-in you linked to is described as "pure alpha", so I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable enabling it on our production blog (at least not yet).
In principle, I'm personally not opposed to having a multilingual setup on the Wikimedia blog, though. I think it's a great idea, at least worth trying out. And as far as I know, other Communications people also find the idea interesting.
I researched the topic a few weeks ago following a discussion we had, and the best bet back then was the WPML plugin: http://wpml.org ; it's a commercial plugin but it's not too expensive, and they have a fee-waiving program for nonprofits. The plugin includes a translation workflow, but I haven't tried it out.
So: possible? difficult? thoughts?
I'd say: possible, probably desirable, and possibly not too difficult. The real trick is going to be the choice of the tool, since we want something that works, stays maintained and doesn't overly complicate our own setup.