Xen community - Dec 2010 - Xen Wiki Translation Problem (Was Re: [Xen-API] New Xen.org Community Manager)

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:31 PM, George Shuklin
<george.shuklin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day.
>
> Well, about Russian translation for wiki I can say one thing: better
> English than that Russian (I think anyway English is essential to read
> xen documentation - to be priestly - fragments of documentation, so we
> can freely throw away wiki translation).
>
> Some samples of incorrect russian translation:
>
> Attachment translated as ''приложения'' (reverse
translation is
> ''application'') instead ''вложения''
(something that put inside, attached).
>
> In attachment list first action named as ''взять'' (I can
even image what
> it was in original), from russian it translate as ''take
away''.
>
> ''Clear cache'' translated as ''убрать из
кеша'' (take way from cache).
>
> Lexically incorrect phrase ''Чтобы создать пользователя или
восстановить
> пароль служит страница'' (word translated correctly but put
together in
> strange form and order).
>
> One more: almost half of text is non-translated, so i looks something
> like this sometimes: If want to re-login, just use Полное имя and Пароль
> and click on Войти.
>
> So, I think there is no need for interface localization (many efforts
> with little payback) and it can be (at least, for Russian) simply left
> English, this will be much easily compare to samples above.
Where is this happening?

Can you send me a link to some examples of the problem?

Also, what do you suggest as the fix?

Thanks,
Todd

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В Втр, 21/12/2010 в 22:17 -0500, Todd Deshane пишет:
> > One more: almost half of text is non-translated, so i looks something
> > like this sometimes: If want to re-login, just use Полное имя and
Пароль
> > and click on Войти.
> >
> > So, I think there is no need for interface localization (many efforts
> > with little payback) and it can be (at least, for Russian) simply left
> > English, this will be much easily compare to samples above.
> 
> Where is this happening?
> 
> Can you send me a link to some examples of the problem?
> 
> Also, what do you suggest as the fix?
I''m talking about wiki.xensource.com (as I understand, moinmoin select
language automatically, based on browser preferred language). 


My suggestion is stop playing internationalization and use  English
interface (remove Russian from available localization).

---
wBR, George Shuklin.


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