[wp-polyglots] 2.7 is coming

[Milan Dinić]

>
> 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, 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 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 and 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>:
> 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, 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 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
>>
>> BTW - It would be nice to have a page on the main 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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