CentOS docs - Sep 2011 - I would like to contribute to the Wiki

Hello!

My username is: MadalinGrigoreEnescu
The proposed subject of my Wiki contribution is: I want to contribute on
translating CentOS Wiki pages in Romanian language (ro)

I also request a personal homepage.

Some words about myself: I am an old Red Hat/Cent OS user (using RedHat distros
from 1999-2000). Romanian is my native language. I would be glad to contribute
to this wiki.


Thank's!
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On 09/28/2011 03:20 PM, www.alopia.com wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> My username is: MadalinGrigoreEnescu
> The proposed subject of my Wiki contribution is: I want to contribute on
translating CentOS Wiki pages in Romanian language (ro)
Can you talk to Manuel (he reads here and probably sees that, too), to
develop some strategy for that?
> I also request a personal homepage.
Done.

Ralph

I would be glad to work with Manuel Wolfshant on this.

Manuel, please let me know if you use any instant messenger client. Maybe that
way we can communicate faster and better on this subject using our native
language...

Also, after reading your answer, I want to add a note to your opinion about
Romanian CentOS users not reading romanian translations: Most of the time, I use
google to search for specific answers. I bet, more romanian wiki pages will add
more results on google.ro searches, naturally driving up more readers in our
native language. Of course I may be wrong.

By the other way, for me, translating the wiki will certainly improve my CentOS
knowledge. I see this as a way both to learn for myself and doing something
positive for the comunity in the same time.

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I also have a proposal about the way we should write from now on:
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I think we must use romanian diacritics like ????? in our translations. This is
the correct way to write romanian. I see all the wiki pages are using UTF-8
character set so there will be no technical problems with that. Other from
writing faster, i see no reason not to use our language specific diacritics.

Also if you agree with that Manuel my next step will be to translate the
following page:

http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation

into

http://wiki.centos.org/ro/Documentation

I am requesting the rights to create/edit that page.
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On 09/29/2011 04:49 PM, Madalin Grigore-Enescu wrote:
> I would be glad to work with Manuel Wolfshant on this.
>
> Manuel, please let me know if you use any instant messenger client. 
> Maybe that way we can communicate faster and better on this subject 
> using our native language...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ManuelWolfshant

>
> Also, after reading your answer, I want to add a note to your opinion 
> about Romanian CentOS users not reading romanian translations: Most of 
> the time, I use google to search for specific answers. I bet, more 
> romanian wiki pages will add more results on google.ro searches, 
> naturally driving up more readers in our native language. Of course I 
> may be wrong.
I am involved in the RLUG community since it was created ( '98) and most 
of the people I know would rather read the original. But if you have the 
time to invest in translations, maybe this will change.
>
> By the other way, for me, translating the wiki will certainly improve 
> my CentOS knowledge. I see this as a way both to learn for myself and 
> doing something positive for the comunity in the same time.
>
> ----------------
> I also have a proposal about the way we should write from now on:
> ----------------
>
> I think we must use romanian diacritics like ????? in our 
> translations. This is the correct way to write romanian. I see all the 
> wiki pages are using UTF-8 character set so there will be no technical 
> problems with that. Other from writing faster, i see no reason not to 
> use our language specific diacritics.
There is a long debate around that. As long as a whole page is written 
in one style only ( either with diacritics everywhere or with none ) you 
have my support. Personally I usually avoid diacritics because in many 
cases I had bad experience when reading pages which included them, due 
to missing fonts on the rendering side. Not to mention the large use of 
wrong characters ( ? instead of the correct one, ?)

>
> Also if you agree with that Manuel my next step will be to translate 
> the following page:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>
> into
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/ro/Documentation
>
Sure, by all means.