Project talk:I18n

FAQ

Important questions that are posed at the end of the article should be cleaned up and placed in the FAQ list.

• Why is this project called "i18n" ?

To avoid problems with the different spellings of "Internationalisation" (it's spelt with a z in US English), the widely used numeronym i18n is used instead.

• Why use ISO 639-3 ?

It supports more languages than the previous ISO standards for language codes. Future proofing basically.

Guidelines for article proposal

1. Create an article in your user-space
2. Add it to the list below
3. Continue to edit, tweak or otherwise improve upon your article while awaiting & responding to feedback from other Residents

Translated versions of an existing article

• Do not use machine translation. Ever. Translate an article into any language and back again to see why.
• Avoid content forks- refrain from translating an article that has been recently created and is still "under construction" as the content or meaning of an article could change.
• Append the ISO 639-3 code to the end of an English language article, e.g. Help:Getting started in Second Life and Help:Getting started in Second Life/spa
  1. State your intentions for translating the article in the article's talk page.
  2. Wait a reasonable amount of time
  3. Start translating
  4. When translating is complete, add Template:multi-lang to the articles- see Help:Getting started in Second Life/langs for an example

Suggested articles

• International portals (something that'd be an intermediate step to Second Life along the lines of the German, Japanese and Korean versions of SecondLife.com)

List of proposed articles

• Project:i18n/List of communities

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