Re: [libreoffice-website] An Observation

Hello again,

> I.e. nl-sites just use the english structure as a guide for their own
> content, in effect many nl-projects do end up in "just" translating
> the english site, also your proposal strongly suggests that.
Well, I can see the good thing about the flexibility. In my case, not 
being good at html and pressed for time, I did use the English site 
mercilessly as a cribsheet. You were right in the sense that once you 
get the hang of it, it's not hard. But the very first time you're dumped 
in the silverstripe main screen is a bit... scary. For one thing I was 
half worried I'd break the English site if I hit the wrong button.

What might be good would be a couple of skeleton templates for new/small 
locales with lots of

<put your text here and then hit save>
<to link to sub-page, create a new page first by pressing...>

stuff just to get you over the first hurdle.

> However: How would you put the nl-project's pages in the face of
> visitors? Just redirecting to<nl>.libreoffice.org won't do - as many
> are still in heavy constructions, only have a tiny fraction of the
> content available on the english site, and people were against putting
> a list of locales in the header/footer for similar reasons.
Well... if it was easier to navigate between the English site and other 
locales, having an automatic redirect wouldn't be so much of a problem. 
Anyway, even without the redirect, I can't see what the issue would be 
with a Wikipedia style language bar on the left or right which allows 
you to navigate between languages if corresponding pages exist. People 
seem to cope very well with different Wikipedias offering different 
amounts of info depending on the language; I don't see what this should 
be different.

I'm afraid I don't have anything more "concrete" to propose but I didn't 
just want to mutter darkly to myself to find out years later that it was 
just some simple oversight :)

Best

Michael

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