Re: [Gnewsense-dev] RFC: Translations

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed Nov 20 08:25:53 2013 Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's been some translation work done on our wiki lately (thanks
> zamah and Loïc!). Before adding Russian to the "Translations" widget I

Thanks indeed!

> wanted to fix the discrepancy between the widget and the naming scheme
> for non-English pages used so far. While our naming scheme is
> EnglishName.de/Subject, the widget links to EnglishName/Subject.de.
> 
> Our options:
> 1) Change the widget.
> 2) Rename all non-English pages.
> 3) All of the above and use a more obvious naming scheme, e.g. Debian's
> [1] de/EnglishName/Subject.
> 
> I'd like to know your opinions and a show of hands of people who would
> like to help with the easy but tedious job of renaming pages if we go
> with option 2 or 3.

All else being equal they all seem to have pretty much the same number of pros 
and cons.

It occurs to me if 3 is chosen it could be a chance for someone (one of the new 
people) to do some python scripting?

> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorGuide#translation

it would be interesing to know why debian chose that name format if we are 
going to change to it.

(I am mobile at the moment so that page might explain but i cant check right 
now)

Thanks,
kk