From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:35:05 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Vester Thacker , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Wiki and translations. In-Reply-To: <32a656c2041021172037db3fb5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <32a656c2041021172037db3fb5@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3818778-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I am interested in posting new Japanese Plan 9 documents and > translations of current Plan 9 papers to the Plan 9 Wiki. Should we > start another page for each new language that we suppport? Or should > we incorporate the translated texts into the current wiki page with > links to the translated works? Ideas anyone? We had someone translating the wiki into Japanese some years ago now, but he got tired of it, and when the wiki got switched over to the 9P2000 wikifs I tossed the Japanese pages, which by then were presumably out of date. What's to say that's not going to happen again? Maintaining multiple consistent copies of anything is hard. If time is going to be spent on the wiki, why not make the English documents better? (It would be different if the rest of the system and its man pages and papers were already available in many languages.) Russ