[CentOS-docs] page for translators

Sat Feb 13 16:07:08 UTC 2010
Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com>

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.

Cheers,

Ralph