[PD] 2. Re: pdpedia URL structure

[eric labelle]

If he doesn't do it i will lol! :)

Eric

2007/9/5, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
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>
> Sounds good to me! I guess you are volunteering to be the FR
> maintainer :D
>
> .hc
>
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:23 PM, JNM wrote:
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> >> 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
> >
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