Where do ubuntu-docs translations go?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)

I don't know how feasable this is but I would really like to see a simple one 
line on all Ubuntu main pages saying something like
"Please click here to see Ubuntu in this language"
translated into every language we know has an equivalent site and clicking 
anywhere on that line links to the appropriate site.  For all remaining 
languages it would be nice to have that link go to a place where Ubuntu can be 
downloaded in the appropriate translation if one exists (even just partially 
translated).  I am currently working on something a little similar for my 
company's website although the only thing people will get is a little leaflet in 
my company's case.

At the moment it seems you have to be one of the people that already knows where 
to find Ubuntu in a particular language which is inconvenient for my work-place 
where i meet people from all over the world but understand almost none of them 
(even americans sometimes) and i often can't even work out which language people 
are speaking :(   In the Answers forum it was fairly easy for me to copy&paste 
into the translators mailing list and people here were fantastically helpful but 
in my paid job i don't have that option.  At work i hope to get around the 
problem by showing people the leaflets page and let them click and read on one 
of our public machines. Can we get something similar on the main Ubuntu page?  I 
worry that a link saying something like "Click here if you don't understand 
English" leading to a list of languages is unlikely to be helpful!!  So how 
could we incorporate something without taking up too much space? (i think the 
space would be justified and a positive thing for Ubuntu to show prominently)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)






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From: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
To: Fotis Tsamis <ftsamis at gmail.com>
Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Wed, 1 September, 2010 8:01:54
Subject: Re: Where do ubuntu-docs translations go?

Hi Fotis,

On 31 August 2010 23:07, Fotis Tsamis <ftsamis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> We have translated a very large part of ubuntu-docs in Greek (el), and
> wondering if it's possible to add the translation in the official ubuntu
> documentation site (https://help.ubuntu.com/) as there are no other
> directories except from C in every project e.g. in:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/

At present we do not include translated documentation on
help.ubuntu.com. That's not because of any technical difficulty in
doing so, but rather because the Ubuntu websites (such as
www.ubuntu.com and help.ubuntu.com) currently have a policy of
publishing in English only, and encouraging local teams to publish
material on their dedicated websites (in your case
http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/). That ensures that users know that they can
find all material related to Ubuntu in their language in one place,
the dedicated local website, and avoids confusion.

There has previously been some discussion about this and I personally
am open to discussing this position with the translation or local
teams if they have views against this policy. But having contributed
for a long time to the Italian local team, I have seen the advantages
of having a single dedicated local website with material all in one
place and I believe that it is a powerful consideration.

There is also an initiative to develop a system whereby users of the
international website are given prominent information about where they
can find material in their language automatically - see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/WebsiteLocalization. I do not know
what stage that initiative has got to but once it is ready we can
certainly use it on help.ubuntu.com.

Building and publishing translated documentation is quite simple. We
have some instructions to help with this here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/BuildingDocumentation


> Also, we had to take the PO files from the branch. Why don't you use the
> appropriate launchpad feature for translations
> (https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-docs)

We do use it. See
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/ubuntu-docs

All translations should be submitted there.

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