We rewrote docs regarding contributing to translations a few months back.... under the Getting Involved handbook (<a href="http://drupal.org/contribute/translations"><span class="a"><span class="b">Translate Drupal to your language</span></span></a>). There are already existing subpages like <a href="http://drupal.org/node/302194" class="active"><span class="a"><span class="b">How to contribute using a localization server</span></span></a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/13220"><span class="a"><span class="b">Translation guidelines</span></span></a>, etc. We probably need to rewrite them again.<br>
<br>Basing from experience of being a maintainer of 3 translation projects and maintaining separate translation servers for these, there are actually a lot of useful things we need for the localization docs but the most important factor is that it must be in a central place IMHO. Translators/Local communities already have to go to at least 3 places just to get updated on translation work. They go their respective groups on g.d.o, their local community website, translation project pages, and now l.d.o.<br>
<br>A wordlist, for example, helps a lot for the consistency and standardization of Drupal-related words. More explanation on this can be found on <a href="http://drupal.org/node/13220">http://drupal.org/node/13220</a> and sharing this to the whole international community would be very beneficial, I think.<br>
<br>Personally, it's hard for me to give my vote or suggestion on where it should be placed. As a docs person, I will vote for the d.o. handbooks because simply.... it's docs. But on the other hand, being part of 2 local communities, I would like to have everything on l.d.o so all the information I need about translations are on 1 place. If its on different locations, I can imagine myself checking d.o. then i will see other interesting things and topics, then I will read about that instead and i have totally forgotten about translating, again :-)<br>
<br>John<br>(JohnNoc)<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/19 Jennifer Hodgdon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yahgrp@poplarware.com">yahgrp@poplarware.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would vote for putting it into the d.o Handbook, to keep all the docs in the same place.<br>
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Gábor Hojtsy wrote:<br>
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I'm thinking about extending the current <a href="http://localize.drupal.org" target="_blank">localize.drupal.org</a> FAQ with<br>
more information for people. I'd envision a collaborated documentation<br>
interface, where people could help out and we'd use a book module<br>
hierarchy. Now, I was thinking setting this up on <a href="http://localize.drupal.org" target="_blank">localize.drupal.org</a><br>
might be counterproductive to the docs effort, and we might as well<br>
just set up a section in the d.o handbooks and collaborate there.<br>
After all, all l.d.o users have a d.o account, so they could easily<br>
contribute there. What do you think?<br>
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