Localized versions of Desktop Help and Server Guide

[Doug Smythies]

On 2013.03.17 09:39 Vadim Nevorotin wrote:

> Hello!
> We have community documentation (wiki) at
> our LoCo site: http://help.ubuntu.ru/wiki/

> And now we want to add here translates of
> official Ubuntu documentation from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/

> Both Desktop Help and Server Guide are fully
> translated to russian, but at https://help.ubuntu.com/
> there is only localized versions of Desktop Help.

> The main question is what should we do: copy Desktop
> Help and Server Guide from LP branch and add it directly
> to our site, or simply add a link to help.ubuntu.com?

> If we should add a link to help.ubuntu.ru how we can
> get a permanent link directly to russian version of
> Desktop Help? Now help.ubuntu.com autodetect user's
> language, but it can mistake and often mistakes.

> Best regards,
> Vadim Nevorotin,
> http://ubuntu.ru administrator

Note: I am only involved with the serverguide, I don't
know anything about the desktop help.

I thought you were already posting the serverguide (PDFs)at
http://help.ubuntu.ru/manual/pdf and something at the
directory above that (not sure what, as I can not read
Russian)

Autodection of user's language aside, I think links to
other language versions on help.ubuntu.com would be a good
idea. Why? Because I, for one, haven't been able to find them
using search engines and such. I can not recall how I found
the Russian site, but it wasn't easy.

By the way, I did finally find this area of launchpad:
https://translations.launchpad.net/serverguide/precise/+pots/serverguide/zh_TW/+details
and I went through every language that has a .po file. Only
Russia has completed translations for precise (which was
completed just a few days ago), and most are less than 10%.
(Italy is 98%, Spanish 77%). So now I think I understand why the Russian
translation was the only one having troubles that needed some
fixes to the master files. They were the only ones that got
that far.