[Scummvm-devel] Translate the website?

Arnaud Boutonné arnaud.boutonne at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 13:54:57 CEST 2010


Hi all,

I don't think it's inconsistent to have the website translated, and the
forums only in English. The rule specify 'all conversation in English', and
therefore is clearly a forum-only rule.
Additionally, If you expect every user to have a minimal knowledge of
English, then translating Scummvm was useless.

I think that translating the website and defaulting to english what's not
translated is a good idea.

Regards,
Strangerke


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:48 PM, yotam barnoy <yotambarnoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the forum we have a rule that all conversation is in English,
> right? So why would we create inconsistency and confusion with the
> website?
>
> In my opinion, the only thing that's worth translating is the
> (partial)manual and the readme file, for noobs. Anyone who's more
> serious should be able to handle the minimal amount of English that's
> on our site.
>
> Yotam
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > now that we localized ScummVM, I wonder whether we should try to localize
> our website? Only the master website, mind you (not the wiki etc.). Overall,
> most text on there is pretty much static. The primary exceptions are  a)
> news items and b) the download page. For a), we could just default showing
> the english news item until somebody translates it. For b), most text on the
> download page is free of any use of language, so I am still quite hopeful
> that it would translate well.
> >
> > All this, of course, only assuming we find somebody to code this into the
> website, and also under the condition that we find translators (I am pretty
> sure this last point is satisfied).
> >
> > We could post a news item about this, looking for help, but before such a
> thing is done, I wanted to make sure we have consensus that this is a good
> idea.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Max
> >
> > P.S.: Please try to refrain from bike shed painting.
> >
> > P.P.S.: I just modified our SF.net trove categorization to reflect that
> there are now localized versions of ScummVM. I also added the Android,
> iPhone etc. ports to that (all that it would let me; there is e.g. no
> "Nintendo DS" category :/)
> >
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