[PD] 2. Re: pdpedia URL structure

[JNM]

>Marius wrote:



>Honestly, I think english is the language to use. who will translate pd
>help into chinese, russian, german, french, portuguese, spanish...


Many people....
  it's not a problem when the documentation is an open and collective 
process and a permanent work-in-progress.
  Wikipedia shows that an open collaborative documentation can 
interest many different communities. Other languages appear when 
other communities or personnalities need the translations. That's the 
force of an open source project.

For example: we have selected fifty basic objects to learn in our PD 
evening-courses. For this fifty objects we will translate all the 
fifty PDpedia pages (in french). Because we have a dozen PD 
teatchers, and each PD teatchers can translate few pages. Because PD 
students will have to translate some pages, as a gift to an open 
source project. Because we don't teach in English.
  For our high-level PD workshops, we will translate many other 
pdpedia object-pages. And we are a lot of classic or alternative 
school to adopt PD instead of Max. In a few years, all 3000 PD 
objects could be translated in french.
PDpedia should not be a classic documentation, but a permanent 
encyclopedia of each object, a work in progress, a LIVING 
documentation like wikipedia, because the process of changing a word 
in a page is a matter of seconds and a few clics.


>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>  Hey,
>>
>>  I've been doing some research on how to handle multiple languages for
>  > the pdpedia.  I am thinking of setting up the URL structure like this:


about the url structure, I think it's less important than the 
facility to reach the localised page, like in wikipedia. That's one 
of the reason why we started a rapid test with wikimedia engine 
instead of another wiki engine 
http://pdpedia.dreamhosters.com/index.php , because of the experience 
in multilingual encyclopedy. ( and because all websurfers know the 
clear interface of wikipedia)

ciao viva

JN