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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am maintaing a PDF version of the english wiki (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Downloads">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Downloads</a>).<br>
Recently a user asked me to make a spanish version (he was from
mexico): he said english was not an option for him, so I tried, even
if the ES wiki manual is far from be complete/up to date. Anyway, it
could be useful to him. <br>
<br>
In the past I also tried with a Czech wiki manual version, but that
to was really not complete/up to date. <br>
<br>
Since I have an automatic conversion script, I always had in mind to
make PDF for other languages too (it could be scripted to make all
lang in a single run, really) but even for my language (IT) I always
have the impression that it's not updated as much as it should. Or
maybe only some parts... But perhaps other langs?<br>
<br>
Trying to understand how and how much existing localized wiki
versions are, I found that's a really huge task, as there are no
specific tools to achieve an overview of the update status. So, I
had to create a script that compares the available versions, taking
the english one as reference ( I already reported here before). <br>
<br>
I recently updated the search and would like to share some findings:<br>
- From what I can see, the 5 "most" up to date localized wikis are
the JA, ET, RO, DE, ES one.<br>
- The best one is the Japanese which still lacks "only" 190 of the
643 english wiki pages, ET misses 263, RO 377, the others are
worst...<br>
- Many localized wikis have pages that are not (or no more) in the
english wiki: many times this happened because (opposed to wiki
translation guidelines) some author used localized strings in the
wiki manual urls... this could be easy to address: it's just the
page url.<br>
- Two localized wiki have totally wrong links eg:<br>
> page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.6/Manual">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.6/Manual</a><br>
> has all links made for "2.5" like <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.5/Manual/Introduction">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.5/Manual/Introduction</a><br>
- I have also automated way to compare last modification of any page
of the wiki, so to be able to (hypotetically) monitor which pages
need to be updated after corresponding main wiki (english) are
updated... up to now I only checked main pages (TOCs), seven of
which show some recent love...<br>
> EN 24 March 2014<br>
> ES 5 March 2014<br>
> IT 24 March 2014<br>
> JA 6 January 2014<br>
> KO 27 February 2014<br>
> PT 23 March 2014<br>
> RO 18 February 2014<br>
> RU 14 April 2014<br>
<br>
I wonder it there could be a place on the wiki itself to share
comparative info like those, and improved, to get an overall view of
the wiki translation status and update, so to help also who wants to
improve a localized wiki manual to make it more "up to date". The
best could be some mediawiki plugin or something, but I could also
upload the results of my findings on a specific wiki section,
maybe... afaik , there 's nothing like that.<br>
<br>
I really like the "wiki way" for documentation but for such a huge
project, and for all those languages... some tool is needed, or at
least more info, imho.<br>
<br>
Ideas? Suggestions? Alternatives?<br>
<br>
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<div><b>Marco</b></div>
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