[haiku] Re: Haiku User Guide
- From: Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:33:34 +0100
2009/6/10 Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Urias McCullough<umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Humdinger<humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Casalinuovo Dario wrote:
>>>> maybe a wiki system can be more simple than the drupal site.
>>>
>>> There's a fundamental thing neither the current drupal nor a wiki site
>>> provides: A method to keep all the different languages up to date.
>
> Also, looking at Wikipedia, I'm kind of curious what method they use
> to "translate" pages to other languages.
>
> For example, if you browse here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
>
> You see the sidebar on the left shows a bunch of language translations
> of that page. I assume one can navigate to those translations and
> update them, or even add new ones... Our Haiku wiki years ago had a
> way to maintain multiple translations of the pages by appending a code
> at the end of the page name... but what Wikipedia is doing seems to be
> quite different and a fundamental part of the software.
>
They're not 'translations', each language has its own entirely
seperate wikipedia - people just link to articles on the same or
similar content. Its lots of instances of the software running on
different subdomains, the "main" wiki as we'd see it is on the en.
subdomain.
Cian
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