Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 00:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> To: Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de> Cc: www@freebsd.org, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, wosch@apfel.de Subject: Re: New Web design Message-ID: <199705052218.AAA00842@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <l03010d00af929de10182@[194.45.188.81]> References: <l03010d00af8beaad4bb1@[194.45.188.81]> <23203.862370725@time.cdrom.com> <l03010d00af929de10182@[194.45.188.81]>
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Stefan Bethke writes: >So, after a busy weekend (drum roll): >http://www.promo.de/people/stefan/freebsd/home1/ >While providing both additional languages (read: translation of the english >pages) and local information is definitly worthwhile, it could easly grow >into a maintainance nightmare. I don't think this is a real problem. Currently we have only a japanese handbook. And maybe we have in the next century a french, german, and spain handbook. Thats are only four translations, not more. Wolfram >I would suggest the following structure. A typical FreeBSD WWW server >(including www.freebsd.org) provides one or more of: >- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/en/ the English pages (what is now /) >- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/YY/ other languages such as JP, DE, PO, or FR; > verbose translation of English version >- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/ a link/redirect to the "preferred" language home > page on that server) >- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/local/YY/ information local to country XX, in > language YY > >A translated version should provide tranlations for at least the Web pages, >the Handbook and FAQ being a plus. > >The non-english pages are maintained by a group of native speakers, on a >server local to them. The documents are distributed through CVSup, so that >any FreeBSD Web server can provide any language version it wants. > >Examples: > >http://www.freebsd.org/en/ - English home page on "main" server >http://www.de.freebsd.org/fr/ - French home page on German mirror >http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/de/ - Local pages for Germany in German. >http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/en/ - Local pages for Germany in English.
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