[Bf-docboard] localized wiki manual: status report / ideas

[Cheng-Chia Tseng]

marco ardito <ardito at apiform.to.it> 於 2014年4月16日星期三寫道：

>  Hi all,
>
> I am maintaing a PDF version of the english wiki (see
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Downloads).
> 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.
>
> In the past I also tried with a Czech wiki manual version, but that to was
> really not complete/up to date.
>
> 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?
>
> 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).
>
> I recently updated the search and would like to share some findings:
> - From what I can see, the 5 "most" up to date localized wikis are the JA,
> ET, RO, DE, ES one.
> - 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...
> - 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.
> - Two localized wiki have totally wrong links eg:
>    > page http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.6/Manual
>    > has all links made for "2.5" like
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:LT/2.5/Manual/Introduction
> - 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...
> > EN 24 March 2014
> > ES 5    March    2014
> > IT 24    March    2014
> > JA 6    January    2014
> > KO 27    February    2014
> > PT 23    March    2014
> > RO 18    February    2014
> > RU 14    April    2014
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ideas? Suggestions? Alternatives?
>
> --
>  *Marco*
>
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> What about Translate extension provided by Translatewiki.net community?

Links:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:MainPage


-- 
Cheers,
by Cheng-Chia Tseng
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