[LGM] Our website translation

[Louis Desjardins]

2015-03-17 20:40 GMT-04:00 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>:

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>
>  I am back with my initial question: what’s the procedure to have a
> French version of our website?
>
>    There's a list of relevant plugins here:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress
>
> If anyone has had any experiences with them (positive or otherwise) maybe
> they can chip in their opinions?
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>  I see only good reasons to have it in French and if someone wants to
> step in and provide a translation in other languages as well, all the best.
>
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> Louis, it's very nice that you're volunteering to translate the site into
> French! As with many things involved in LGM organizing, I'd love to see a
> discussion about how we can sustain initiatives like a multi-lingual
> website from year-to-year, rather than having each year be ad hoc and based
> on the choices of the local team and whoever has the time and passion for a
> particular issue.
>
> Maybe we can have a broader discussion about how to support the
> internationality of LGM, both this year and in future years.
>

Actually, I was not thinking this would even be in discussion. We do have
an unwritten rule as we can see below. As they say, when in Rome, you do
like the Romans! :-)

The rule is simple. Our website is in English and in the official
language(s) from the host country. We have been following this unwritten
rule except in Poland (2008) and in Germany (2014).

2006 - Lyon - France - Website is EN and FR (official language)
2007 - Montréal - Canada - Website is EN and FR (both official languages)
2008 - Wrocław - Poland - Website is EN only (?)
2009 - Montréal - Canada - Website is EN and FR (both official languages)
2010 - Brussels - Belgium - Website is EN, FR and NL-BE (both official
languages)
2011 - Montréal - Canada - Website is EN and FR (both official languages)
2012 - Wien - Austria - Website is EN and DE-AT (official language)
2013 - Madrid - Spain - Website is EN and ES (official language)
2014 - Leipzig - Germany - Website is EN only (?)
2015 - Toronto - Canada - Website is currently EN and we can make it FR
2016 - London - UK - Website will be in EN (although it seems UK has no
"official language")
2017…

All that is needed is the technical frame to make that possible, as in
previous years. Since 2011 and maybe 2010 we rely on Wordpress. So, the
plug-in must be well-known by the communication team or the infrastructure
team.

I find this rule respectful of both the host country and the community.

Louis


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> -ginger
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>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Toronto
>> "While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians,
>> Statistics Canada reports that other language groups are significant,
>> including the Chinese languages (particularly Cantonese and Mandarin),
>> Italian, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Tamil, Portuguese, Persian,
>> Arabic, Russian, Polish, Gujarati, Korean, Vietnamese, and Greek.
>> Canada's other official language, French, is spoken by 1.2% of the
>> population."
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