User talk:SignpostMarv Martin/Sandbox/Project:Internationalisation/List of communities

multi-lingual articles

As Second Life, and thus the SL Wiki is a multi-lingual community, some structure to translates articles should be implemented.

This is my proposal.

1. Create the English-language article in foo
2. Create translated versions of the article in foo/lang-code, where "lang-code" is the ISO 639 alpha-2 (or possibly the ISO 639-3) language code for that language, e.g. foo/es or foo/spa

Examples

• GUIA_SL_FAQs moves to Help:Second Life FAQ/es or Help:Second Life FAQ/spa (and the german version to Help:Second Life FAQ/de or Help:Second Life FAQ/deu and so on)
• GUIA - Gestos moves to Help:Gestures/es or Help:Gestures/spa and so on.
• Geld gets translated into english, with the translated version being put in Help:Linden Dollar, and Geld being moved to Help:Linden Dollar/de or Help:Linden Dollar/deu

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If enough people agree with this proposal, I would suggest we keep to the Help articles to begin with- this will give a highly focused sandbox for developing the processes for translating, moving and requesting articles to be translated. I'll also go into more detail with the ideas I have for Project:Internationalisation.

I think it's a given why the English language version of an article should be the "root" article, although if anyone disagrees or would like my opinion on the matter, feel free to say so! :-)

SignpostMarv Martin 22:33, 10 February 2007 (PST)