[Webcom] Translation issues..

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Thanks for doing all the hard work Marie - this will work fine.

Tyler

On 11-Sep-07, at 5:26 AM, Marie Silvestre wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I've completed the portal translation status page to add menu names  
> in french but doing so I realized that I added every pages in the  
> table no matter if they were "menu pages" or not...
> I didn't want to erase every non-menu pages so I put every menu  
> page title in bolt and the others in italic just to easily  
> distinguish page types.
> I added a column "title in french" instead of overwriting titles in  
> english. Sorry for disturbing the whole homogeneity of this wiki  
> page but IMO translation is easier to manage this way (until I find  
> an other brand new way !!).
> So if *someone* has a little time, there are some translations to  
> make !
>
> Regards,
> Marie
>
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr>
> À : Web committee discussions <webcom at lists.osgeo.org>
> Envoyé le : Samedi, 8 Septembre 2007, 18h23mn 40s
> Objet : Re: [Webcom] Translation issues..
>
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> On 7-Sep-07, at 4:54 AM, Marie Silvestre wrote:
>>
>>> Hi WebCom !
>>>
>>> I've got some questions about news, upcoming events and every things
>>> that appear on the home page of the website. How does the  
>>> translation
>>> work there ?
>>> Let me explain my problem : I translated the FOSS4G "upcoming event"
>>> item in french (hard work, yeah I know...) and the translation does
>>> not appear on the french home page. I did the same with the last  
>>> news
>>> item about mapguide release and it worked.
>>> So, is there any way I can translate upcoming events and other items
>>> (appart from news which already work) and make them appear on the
>>> french home page ?
>>
>> Most "normal" pages should translate perfectly fine.  I guess the  
>> event
>> items are the only problem?   This is a custom type of content we  
>> have,
>> we will have to look into how to enable translations for them if they
>> are not working.  Likewise, with http://osgeo.org/library - some  
>> items
>> only show up in French but are not shown in English... this is  
>> tough, I
>> believe it is the same problem.
>>
>>> I've got another question about translation : would it be  
>>> possible to
>>> translate elements in the left menu and other titles (such as  
>>> "Home",
>>> "OSGeo community", "Select language", "news", etc.) ?
>>
>> Definitely - this is something I meant to do but haven't done.   
>> Please
>> add the titles you would like to see into the table here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Portal_Translation_Status (like  
>> done in
>> the Deutsch section).  Then when someone has time to edit the  
>> menus it
>> can be changed.
>>
>> Tyler
>
> Hi Tyler,
>
> The library is a little bit different because all items which are  
> shown
> only in French are written in French ;). So I don't think they have to
> be shown in the English one...
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Y.
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