Re: Serbian translation of the PHP manual

Дана Thursday 31 March 2011 18:20:53 Philip Olson написа: > On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > Somewhat similarly, I see that Creative Commons license should not be > > translated, which is understandable. However, may I instead replace it > > with the Serbian version of the CC-BY license? This is the same license > > that is translated to Serbian and adjusted to Serbian legal system, > > published and endorsed by the Creative Commons. You may see > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/rs/deed.en . I > > believe that > > using the localized license(s) speeds up adoption of free content, and > > using this license for this manual would do the same. > > Another good question. Should we do this for every language? I wonder if > all of our language codes line up with CC, which would make using an entity > here easy. CC does have such licenses for a number of countries (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network ) though a question remains what license to use for languages spoken in multiple countries (Spanish). I don't see how an entity would help here? > > Is it OK if I add new paragraphs, pages and files to the documentation > > that are relevant for the translation? For example, in > > en/appendices/userlandnaming.xml I discuss variable naming in Serbian. > > Adding text may cause problems in determining if the translation is > up-to-date. How about adding additional text like this to an rs-specific > entity, and including it? If everything else fails, that could do. I see that the online editor complained about errors when I did that - do such errors affect the build or could they be ignored? > > Unrelated to the above, how much should I work on the English original? I > > already encountered a few typos while translating. But, for example, > > while translating wrapper documentation, I noticed that entries in the > > Wrapper Summary are very repetitive. Should I introduce new entities so > > that future translators (and me) would have less work to do? > > Yes. The general rule is to add an entity if text is repeated 3 or more > times. Also, please don't mix whitespace changes with textual changes. But > agreed, the less work for translators the better. I made a frequency analysis of the manual and there are 1023 texts that are repeated 3 or more times :) Perhaps this should be done gradually...