More winehq.org improvements and issues: About page now links to articles in the wiki

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Tue Aug 4 05:11:44 CDT 2009


Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> 
>> I have begun some cleanup of the website, starting with the most popular
>> pages.  In particular, the about page: http://www.winehq.org/about/
>>
>> The text is much easier to read for a newcomer to get a general overview
>> of the project.
> 
> Actually I got the page in French (which is good) so I don't know if I 
> got the latest version. But I did not find a way to switch the language 
> on the page (I could reconfigure the browser but that's not reasonable 
> to expect). So this raises two questions:
> 
>  * What's the right way to handle out of date translation?
>    Ignore the translation if it's older than the English file?
>    Consider each language to be completely independent from the others? 
>    (i.e. they are not translations of each other but independently 
>    developped texts and thus cannot be 'out of date'; a bit like the 
>    Wikipedia articles)
> 

Since from what I can tell the non-english content on the site is still
more or less direct translations it would be nice to at least notify
translators when they're out of date.  If they think the text they have
is still better then that's fine.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie



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