Re: Multi-language to be or not to be

On Sunday 11 February 2007 08:22, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I'm working on a rewrite and major cleanup of parts of the code that
> runs the main website, and came across a thought.
>
> We currently have support for translation of news, events, surveys,
> quotes and pages. So far, we have zero news, zero events, zero surveys,
> zero quotes and zero pages translated.
>
> The only translated pages are the press information ones, and I don't
> count them because we don't actually use the translation infrastructure
> for them - we link specifically to each and every page.
>
> All the other translations live on completely separate sites - I think
> because they only translate parts of the information and also provide a
> lot of native information in that language.
>
> I know adding translation capabilities was one of the big requirements
> for the last rewrite. But I'd still like to bring up the question -
> should we bother keeping it, or just get rid of it? We thought we had a
> need then, but do we still have it?
>
> Getting rid of it will significantly simplify some code, and it will
> make the static mirrors about half the size they are now (we currently
> mirror every page both in English and in language-neutral (which means
> English again)).
>

See recent post on advocacy from italian community asking about providing
translation capabilities. We need to talk to them and see if we have
something that they want to use; if we don't then I have no objections to
removing it (though fwiw I don't find it a terrible burden as it currently
stands)

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Robert Treat
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