[pmwiki-users] Tri-Linguality with columns?

[Torsten Philipp]

Hi Luigi,

thanks a lot for taking the time and having such a close look at my question. Thanks also for the advice. All your points make very much sense to me.

Actually I came across the MultiLanguage recipe just recently. I will definitelly check it out more deeply now.

Best wishes,
Torsten


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:49:53 +0200
Von: "kirpi at kirpi.it" <kirpi at kirpi.it>
An: TorstenPhilipp at gmx.net
CC: pmwiki-users <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Betreff: Tri-Linguality with columns?

> > I'd like to have this wiki (http://free-music.uk.pn/) trilingual
> (german, english, french).
> > The point is that I wanna have all three languages on one page
> > next to each other in one column each.
> 
> Your site design is nice to look at, but doesn't fit for your
> three-columns concept.
> It wastes most users' screen space.
> I would suggest, in case you really stick to your three-columns idea,
> to switch to a full-screen, free-flow design, something like the
> standard pmwiki skin.
> 
> I guess that some easy setup like:
> 
>  (:table border=1 width=100%:)
>  (:cell:)
>  (:comment HERE STARTS THE GERMAN TEXT SECTION:)
>  Bla bla bla in German
>  (:comment HERE ENDS THE GERMAN TEXT SECTION:)
>  (:cell:)
>  (:comment HERE STARTS THE ENGLISH TEXT SECTION:)
>  Bla bla bla in English
>  (:comment HERE ENDS THE ENGLISH TEXT SECTION:)
>  (:cell:)
>  (:comment HERE STARTS THE FRENCH TEXT SECTION:)
>  Bla bla bla in French
>  (:comment HERE ENDS GOES THE GERMAN TEXT:)
>  (:tableend:)
> 
> could be enough for your goal, while being also rather safe for the
> editors to understand what goes where.
> This is true for the most basic needs.
> But, please read on...
> 
> 
> > I thought this would be a good way to make users aware of the
> internationality
> > of the discussed issues in the wiki and to have all three languages
> equal
> > to each other instead of one language below the other would foster
> translingual collaboration.
> 
> As far as I can say, you will hardly end up with something sound and
> usable.
> And even if you will, your community of editors will most probably
> **not** follow your plans.
> 
> In all sites of nations where more than one language is officially
> spoken (Canada, Switzerland,...) I do not remember I ever saw a real
> **working** side-by-side-language site.
> And things complicate as you are handling a wiki, virtually edited by
> anybody.
> 
> For an international site I would (personally) go for the English
> language, and let French and German alone.
> 
> Just in case, you might provide your pages with the MultiLanguage
> recipe[1], which is able to take care of both the body of your page
> and the SideBar menu. Also, this would positively open the door to
> other wide-spoken languages (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese,...) in case
> anybody is willing to contribute.[2]
> 
> 
> Luigi
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MultiLanguage?from=Cookbook.Multilanguage
> [2] Not to mention less widespread languages whose communities are
> nonetheless quite active (Dutch, Finnish,...).

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