How to contribute translations

Gyroplast · 2003-07-18 23:11:28

G'morning!

If you feel up to translating the official documentation of Arch Linux into a yet uncovered language, I'd love to hear from you and help if there are any questions. To simply get started without further babble, you should head over to http://archlinux.veloxis.de/official/ and grab the latest and greatest LaTeX source package from there on which you can and should base your translation on. It's quite easy to handle, even if you never used TeX or LaTeX before, and the scripts you need to generate HTML and ASCII from the sources are included as courtesy copies.

Don't wait, start working on your translation today and make sure you post what you're working on so others don't reinvent the wheel at the same time.

Thanks,
Dennis

Mork II · 2003-07-19 14:53:12

I plan to start working on a swedish (and maybe finnish) translation in a few days. I was only waiting for the new version.

The point of this post was actually to ask you to post post a changelog here (or send an email to each translator) every time you change the document.

nifan · 2003-07-19 17:38:13

im going to translate the docs to portuguese, not yet but in the next one or tweo weeks im gonna put my hands on the job. btw jlvsimoes will help me to i hope

sud_crow · 2003-07-19 20:39:25

All right.

I already started with the old docs, moving to this one now.
mmm... more lines added...mmm...

thanks for the "copies"

-- Spanish translation in progress
-- Traducción al español en progreso

--- Im already at the FTP install subsection.
--- Ya voy por la subseccion instalacion desde FTP

Gyroplast · 2003-07-19 22:40:52

Wonderful! That's quite a bit of languages already!

As Mork pointed out, there needs to be some sort of central changelog to make sure every translator is kept up to date. As all this organisational stuff is still in the works, I cannot yet tell you how it's gonna work out, but orelien suggested putting the docs into the CVS, which sounds like a very good idea to me. Combined with a mailing list, this is probably optimal. Until something specific is worked out, though, I'd say don't care too much about getting the latest version of the docs right now. I'll make sure that the "Changes" section in the documentation itself reflects all changes I made, so you can easily catch up when you find the time to update your translations. Additionally, I won't update the docs more often than, say, once a week unless something is so utterly, critically wrong that it needs to be fixed right away, which should offer plenty of time to integrate the changes into the translations and maybe even allow for a sort of fixed update schedule. We'll see how that works out and adapt when it sucks.

So, right now you might want to simply send me an email (dennis@archlinux.org) if you want to be notified of any changes to the documentation, and I'll take care that you will stay right up to date. That should do until we've got something better.

Thanks,
Dennis

sud_crow · 2003-07-20 03:18:47

Well, thats a great idea... now i will have to learn CVS... XML and i dont know what else...
Apart from LaTeX, and scripting...

damn, this is getting good...! 8) hehe, i love it.

Gyroplast · 2003-08-09 13:20:47

A new version of the official docs can be found on http://archlinux.veloxis.de/official/ with sources. Furthermore it'd be nice if any translator would actually do send me his email address, I felt pretty stupid telling only Nifan about this by email.

Greets,
Dennis

hughchen · 2003-12-03 11:17:37

Hi,All,
Tonight,I finally got LaTeX support CJK andI'd like to translation the ArchLinux document into chinese.It may be available in about 2-3 weeks!

linfocito · 2003-12-04 19:05:51

I'm starting a portuguese translation. I am not confliting with Nifan's one. The point is that Brazillian portuguese is kind of different from that spoken in Portugal, particularly for computer terms.

ex: File - in Brazil we say Arquivo, in Portugal they say Ficheiro ( as far as I know)

jlvsimoes · 2003-12-04 19:17:32

linfocito thank you finaly someone gets my point thank you thank you thank you

nifan · 2003-12-04 20:26:03

yes portuguese anda brazilian portuguese can be quite diferent, and its kind of annoing to read something that's not really our language. well it is but a bit od

btw i hope i get the right mood to review the pt_PT translation and submit it :oops:

/me is so fuckin lazzy

P.S. the translation is not only mine, jlvsimoes also helped alot, like 50%

dipp · 2004-06-27 10:39:44

Mork II wrote:

I plan to start working on a swedish (and maybe finnish) translation in a few days. I was only waiting for the new version.
The point of this post was actually to ask you to post post a changelog here (or send an email to each translator) every time you change the document.

How is your translation coming? Cause I have already translated roughly half of the Installation documentation into swedish. I am planning to release an early beta of it this coming week.

KalephOne · 2004-06-27 13:39:56

linfocito, if you need some help with the pt_BR translation, i'm here to help

linfocito · 2004-06-27 19:32:52

KalephOne wrote:

linfocito, if you need some help with the pt_BR translation, i'm here to help

Well I wasn´t using Archlinux ultimately (trying Crux for a while) but I´m back. As soon I start the translations I´ll let you know.

linfocito · 2004-08-13 07:23:45

linfocito wrote:

KalephOne wrote:
linfocito, if you need some help with the pt_BR translation, i'm here to help
Well I wasn´t using Archlinux ultimately (trying Crux for a while) but I´m back. As soon I start the translations I´ll let you know.

Well, I've started it !

whisky · 2005-06-16 00:49:55

I am doing the translation to Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) of the Arch Documentation (Wiki + Install Guide + other man/tutorial pages).

But htere is one thing that really bothers me a lot.. Which licence use all these Docs? I mean, should I put a licence line in every doc, like in the Wikipedia (common creative license?) or what? And, do I have the right to replicate (copy/paste) the entire wiki and translate them to chinese and post them in other place/site?

sud_crow · 2005-06-17 01:45:16

Hi, if i were you, i would start using some other Wiki system, the official Arch Wiki might migrate to mediawiki, because of the problems they had to organize phpwiki.

Also, i just realized they removed the translated documentation links from the front page to the tranlated docs in the Wiki, but the Spanish one, which was for 0.5 is missing... i' lll look a bit more and post something if i dont find it

oh, and about the docs license, good point! dont know it

s0lar · 2005-10-21 08:20:02

I can translate to Dutch but never used LaTex and html skills are sucky.

Malcolm · 2006-01-08 19:41:47

I can translate to Russian, but I never use LaTex...

arooaroo · 2006-01-08 21:24:46

Then get over to this bad-ass site for taking you to zero-to-hero in LaTeX skills

hotsauce · 2006-01-28 21:51:28

or go to www.lyx.org if you feel lazy...

hotsauce · 2006-01-28 21:53:33

oh! and by the way. My wife has almost convinced me to finally try and give something back to the community. Since I'm not too much of a techie, I thought I could try and translate something. French would be the language. I'm just wondering if there actually would be an interest and/or need for this. Also, what's the priority? Installation documentation?

Thanx

arooaroo · 2006-01-28 22:46:30

hotsauce wrote:

oh! and by the way. My wife has almost convinced me to finally try and give something back to the community. Since I'm not too much of a techie, I thought I could try and translate something. French would be the language. I'm just wondering if there actually would be an interest and/or need for this. Also, what's the priority? Installation documentation?
Thanx

Why not try pages of interest on the wiki?

hotsauce · 2006-01-29 00:03:09

Why not try pages of interest on the wiki?

I'm not sure I get what you mean. Is there a "pages of interest" on the wiki or do you encourage me to translate whatever page interests me on the wiki?

Thanx

Edit: I noticed this was a resurected thread. I<ll try to read a bit and find out who<s in charge of docs and translations. Sorry for the trouble.

arooaroo · 2006-01-29 12:17:01

hotsauce wrote:

...or do you encourage me to translate whatever page interests me on the wiki?

That's the one

In my mind, contributions should be "fun", or as fun as possible. This means working on elements that you find interesting.

As you've set yourself the task of translating, then you may feel that the best place to start are pages dedicated to the installation of Arch Linux, and therefore start translating those wiki pages. Or, perhaps you are interested more in multimedia, and so wish to translate wiki pages on getting sound/video running smoothly, etc, etc.

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