[CentOS-docs] page for translators

[Alan Bartlett]

On 13 February 2010 16:07, Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 13.02.10 15:33, schrieb Alan Bartlett:
>
>> At present, it seems to me, that this is only being done by Timothy
>> Lee for the traditional and simplified Chinese translations. An
>> example of where the maintenance has woefully failed is the Spanish
>> translation. Indeed, I am rather concerned that there exists a link on
>> the front page for "This wiki in Spanish". Your thoughts on this
>> please, Ralph.
>
> Alain is offline (and has been for two months or so). Up to then he
> normally found the time to update the spanish translation, as pages were
> changed or sometimes newly created.
>
> No idea if any of the people who began creating the spanish translation
> together with Alain still reads here. Luis, are you still here? Hardy?
>
>> I know that the "rot" of wiki pages is a particular concern to Russ
>> and I have to agree with him. Without adequate commitment by the
>> language translators in keeping their pages in sync with the English
>> version, such translated pages are, essentially, worthless and the
>> "rot" is terminal.
>
> That depends. If the original only changes in wording and/or there are
> some language issues, I don't see it that way. If the translation
> enables the reader to do at least basic groundwork while the original
> page has added content to that, I don't really see a problem either.

With no disrespect to Alain -- who does a fine job in numerous areas
-- but upon checking info of the three Spanish translations [1][2][3]
of pages that I know well I see no attempt to keep them up to date. At
least (when I last checked) the German and French translations link
the user to the original English pages.

Alan.

[1] http://wiki.centos.org/es/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source?action=info
[2] http://wiki.centos.org/es/HowTos/Custom_Kernel?action=info
[3] http://wiki.centos.org/es/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules?action=info