Subject: Re: NetBSD spanish Wiki
To: None <netbsdgeek@gmail.com>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/10/2006 17:54:38
2006/9/9, Gratian Irimia <netbsdgeek@gmail.com>:
> 2006/9/9, Francisco Valladolid Hdez. <ficovh@yahoo.com>:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I thinking, if it's possible, translated current Wiki
> > documents (http://wiki.netbsd.se) to spanish in the
> > (http://www.netbsd.org.mx site) this process can be
> > more easy for Mexican and spanish users.
> >
> > Please let me know you think ?
> >
> > Regards.
>
> OK, I'm pretty happy too see people involved into NetBSD docs and
> translations, it is really great. And I'm not trying to be rude, or
> ignorant, just that..no one cares about the FAQ, website, manuals, you
> all, just start your own project, and work, in small teams, when we
> all can work as one team, here, translating the faq and the website
> into spanish first, and then we'll see what about extra
> documentation/spanish wiki.
> The best way to support NetBSD with docs and translation its to
> translate the website and website's content, or submit new
> documentation to netbsd.org. This is linux-style, to access XXXXXX
> number websites to find the documentation you need, and I'm pretty not
> very excited with the linux-style of access to the documentation. If
> we do not submit documentation and translation to the project, just to
> submit small howtows on our websites, we are not really helping the
> project.
> I'm really excited to start working on netbsd's translations in
> spanish and romanian, but unfortunately, I cant do it all by myself.
> Why? Because translating does not mean only once time translation, you
> have to keep all the translations up-to-date (outdated translations
> and somehow, totally useless), and I dont have the necesarry amount of
> free time to do it all by myself.
> I'm looking for teams (or to create a team) to start the translations,
> if someone interested, just let me know.
> >

The difference is that people can update articles in the wiki
on-the-fly, without sending in patches.

The other point is, there are to and fro people who wants to translate
the netbsd docs, but fail in completing, so they does not get
committed.

Z.

> > --- Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
> >
> > > I thought about a multi-language wiki for
> > > wiki.netbsd.se, long time
> > > ago, but it does not make any sense, until there are
> > > enough articles
> > > to translate. Actually we are counting 249 Articles.
> > > That means, the
> > > wiki is in the need of much more valueable veryfied
> > > articles in
> > > english. After that I'm thinking to fork
> > > [inter-connect] in french,
> > > spanish, german and japanese.
> > >
> > > Zafer.
> > >
> > > Please contribute your knowledge to the wiki.
> > > http://wiki.netbsd.se/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2006/9/9, Francisco Valladolid Hdez.
> > > <ficovh@yahoo.com>:
> > > >
> > > > --- "Peter I. Hansen" <pih@xbase.dk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Francisco Valladolid Hdez. wrote:
> > > > > > I want to announce that a NetBSD in spanish
> > > was
> > > > > > launched recently under
> > > http://www.netbsd.org.mx
> > > > > and
> > > > > > we are maintaned it with ours owns resources
> > > and
> > > > > time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Tha main pourpose is create good documentation
> > > in
> > > > > > spanish language for promote the NetBSD use.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please, if you live in the Latin American
> > > > > countries or
> > > > > > your natural language is the spanish feel free
> > > in
> > > > > > write some tutorial for it now.
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe this could be merged with the NetBSD wiki?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://wiki.netbsd.se/
> > > >
> > > > Maybe.
> > > >
> > > > How it can merge ?, translating current tutorials
> > > in
> > > > the http://wiki.netbsd.se/ ? or supporting spanish
> > > > docs in the wiki ?
> > > >
> > > > Regards.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > /Peter
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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