On Sunday 20 of September 2020 20:09:14 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 22:47:27 -0500
Michael via tde-users ml-migration-agent@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
On Saturday 19 September 2020 02:12:55 pm Thierry de Coulon
Comming to the ease of installing TDE on the different distributions: Following the steps in the TDE wiki it's quite easy to do for all distros - if you know enough englisch to follow the steps.
Would it help to provide instructions in other languages? I never cared myself as I am lucky enough to read several languages, but i do know people who would turn back if they don't find french...
Having the Wiki be multilingual would be really nice.
I think this is the right extension?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
“The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every kind of text. It's used especially to translate software and to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.
“The Translate extension allows for connection to a translation service and can auto fill the translation for you. At the same time a translator can make adjustments so you're not creating lots of pages with inaccurate translations.”
Whoever is doing the Wiki, is this something we could add?
Or is there a better solution?
"Better" is a fuzzy word in this case. This extension seems to be for getting some form of translated text in place with a minimum of work. The result likely won't be as good as a competent translator working on it from scratch (the temptation to retain things like not-quite-appropriate sentence structure from the original language is always there).
The languages menu will have to be included in the wiki theme's sidebar, but that's relatively trivial.
E. Liddell
The Translate extension is not currently installed. If this extension is appropriate to create translated pages, we can install it.
However, I'm a little worried that more than a small amount of wiki content needs updating. This would probably be a good thing to do before devoting efforts to translation. Just my guess.
Cheers