[wp-polyglots] 2.7 is coming

[Mattias Tengblad]

Ah ok thanks for those screens, that looks nice. Like to often with 
WordPress development I can't find this mentioned anywhere, or have I 
missed this?

I'll reconsider a locale site for the Swedish team.

// Mattias

Milan Dinić skrev:
>
>     In the matter of finding language files for first time users I
>     think as long as there is no drop down, flags or other direct
>     links on the first page of wp.org <http://wp.org>, users tend to
>     use other means to find the information directly in their native
>     language, instead of browsing around on a site in a language maybe
>     not so familiar. (This has been pointed out to me a bunch of times
>     by our Swedish portal members)
>
>     If reorganized to make it easier to find on wp.org <http://wp.org>
>     I'll be sure to reconsider a locale site. As is now, I still can't
>     see the point, more than as an _extra_ reference.
>
>
> There is already something like this. Below are screenshots of what 
> Serbian visitors of wordpress.org <http://wordpress.org> and 
> wordpress.org/download <http://wordpress.org/download> see when they 
> visit those pages.
>
> http://img341.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wphomele7.jpg
> http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wpdownloadrz2.jpg
> Check out code on those pages just above </body>.
>
> 2008/10/27 Mattias Tengblad <mst at eyesx.com <mailto:mst at eyesx.com>>:
> > Sure in other cases a locale site at wordpress would be a benefit, 
> but in
> > case of automatic updates it doesn't really matter. It could easily be
> > checked against SVN. I think this should be up to the language teams to
> > decide. Lets say the update checks the locale site first, if nothing 
> there
> > the SVN is checked.
> >
> > 
> http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language#Swedish_-_Svenska_.28sv_SE.29
> > well organized ;)
> >
> > In the matter of finding language files for first time users I think 
> as long
> > as there is no drop down, flags or other direct links on the first 
> page of
> > wp.org <http://wp.org>, users tend to use other means to find the 
> information directly in
> > their native language, instead of browsing around on a site in a 
> language
> > maybe not so familiar. (This has been pointed out to me a bunch of 
> times by
> > our Swedish portal members)
> >
> > If reorganized to make it easier to find on wp.org <http://wp.org> 
> I'll be sure to
> > reconsider a locale site. As is now, I still can't see the point, 
> more than
> > as an _extra_ reference.
> >
> > // Mattias
> >
> > Peter Westwood skrev:
> >>
> >> Mattias Tengblad wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ok, my point here is that this is supposed to be an *automatic update
> >>> service* for the users. Where in this do the extra site help if 
> the users
> >>> never gonna visit it anyway. In that case why not just check SVN 
> directly
> >>> like a extra site would for the update?
> >>>
> >>> Sure it can be a good reference point but not for an _automatic_ 
> update!
> >>> Just some sort of middleman. Or am I missing something here? Do 
> you still
> >>> need to manually download the language file from a page?
> >>>
> >> I think the point is that by having the site there is a process for
> >> publishing the zip file which includes the translated files and 
> there is a
> >> place for new users to find a translation of WordPress when they visit
> >> wordpress.org <http://wordpress.org>
> >>
> >> BTW - It would be nice to have a page on the main wordpress.org 
> <http://wordpress.org> site which
> >> linked to all the hosted I18N sites which I wanted to do from my 
> recent blog
> >> post [1]
> >>
> >> westi
> >>
> >> [1] - http://westi.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/wordpress-in-your-language/
> >>
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