[wp-polyglots] 2.7 is coming

[Mattias Tengblad]

When dose those banners become visible? Not showing up for me. Tried 3 
different browsers. Swedish system, Swedish browsers.

// Mattias

Mattias Tengblad skrev:
> 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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