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Hello,My wiki username is SteveMustafaI kindly request permission to create new localized wiki pages in Arabic, landing page should be*
http://wiki.centos.org/ar

Please be aware that there might*be a need to create new templates since Arabic is an RTL language.

Many thanks
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On 20.03.2012 19:59, Steve-Mustafa Ismail wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My wiki username is SteveMustafa
> I kindly request permission to create new localized wiki pages in Arabic,
> landing page should be
> http://wiki.centos.org/ar

I'll ask you the same things that I ask everyone going for a
translation: Are you alone or are there a few more people doing the
translation? Do you think you can keep up with a) the existing content
and b) changing wiki pages?

I ask that, because most attempts to add a language to the wiki ended
pretty soon, after a few articles were translated.

That is nothing personal, but just a question coming out of that
experience, I personally think it is great, that you want to do
something like that.

> Please be aware that there *might* be a need to create new templates since
> Arabic is an RTL language.

I haven't the faintest idea what has to be done to support that :)

Cheers,

Ralph
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Well, for now I stand alone to be honest, but I have hopes.
As for coping with new content, my primary focus will be to convert what is there already and then tackle the new. *In many cases, like this (
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia*), there's not much to do except for the first paragraph and probably a few addition comments to be inserted as explanatory notes, but otherwise a bash script is a bash script. *

My question now is how often does current content change?
One another thing, I wasn't planning in going back historically to change all that, I was considering starting from version 6 onwards.

I will be asking around to see if there are others in the local LUG that would be willing to join in this endeavor. *

Well, the net is pretty much unicode ready these days :) *I'd have to literally flip everything and that is usually not much of a hassle for a template. *If the page is html standards compliant, and I'm certain it is, then in the html tag, what is needed is "dir=rtl" and voila. *Check this:*
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/*


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20.03.2012 19:59, Steve-Mustafa Ismail wrote:

> Hello,

>

> My wiki username is SteveMustafa

> I kindly request permission to create new localized wiki pages in Arabic,

> landing page should be

> http://wiki.centos.org/ar



I'll ask you the same things that I ask everyone going for a

translation: Are you alone or are there a few more people doing the

translation? Do you think you can keep up with a) the existing content

and b) changing wiki pages?



I ask that, because most attempts to add a language to the wiki ended

pretty soon, after a few articles were translated.



That is nothing personal, but just a question coming out of that

experience, I personally think it is great, that you want to do

something like that.



> Please be aware that there *might* be a need to create new templates since

> Arabic is an RTL language.



I haven't the faintest idea what has to be done to support that :)



Cheers,



Ralph

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Hi Steve-Mustafa,



On 03/22/2012 01:55 PM, Steve-Mustafa Ismail wrote:

Well, for now I stand alone to be honest, but I
have hopes.

I'm currently the lone Chinese translator of the wiki.* Although
there have been occasional offers from others to help with the
translation, their commitment turn out to be short-lived.*
Regardless, stick to your conviction and do not despair.* :)



My question now is how often does current content change?


The bulk of the changes occur when a new minor version is released,
which happens about every 6 months.* The accompanying release notes
should be translated.



Otherwise most changes happen because of kernel updates.



One another thing, I wasn't planning in going back
historically to change all that, I was considering starting
from version 6 onwards.


In that case, I would suggest translating these pages first:


FrontPage
Download
Documentation
FAQ
FAQ/General
FAQ/CentOS6

Regards,

Timothy Lee



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On 22.03.2012 06:55, Steve-Mustafa Ismail wrote:

> I will be asking around to see if there are others in the local LUG that
> would be willing to join in this endeavor.
>
> Well, the net is pretty much unicode ready these days :) I'd have to
> literally flip everything and that is usually not much of a hassle for a
> template. If the page is html standards compliant, and I'm certain it is,
> then in the html tag, what is needed is "dir=rtl" and voila. Check this:
> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/

Sorry for being late to the game again (I was traveling):

How about if you try to translate the release notes first and we see if
we can work out RTL issues while doing that?

If that's okay with you, I'd add you to the correct ACL and you can try
to have a go at that.

Cheers,

Ralph
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On Fr 06 Apr 2012 23:14:55 CEST, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> On 22.03.2012 06:55, Steve-Mustafa Ismail wrote:
>
>> I will be asking around to see if there are others in the local LUG that
>> would be willing to join in this endeavor.
>>
>> Well, the net is pretty much unicode ready these days :) I'd have to
>> literally flip everything and that is usually not much of a hassle for a
>> template. If the page is html standards compliant, and I'm certain it is,
>> then in the html tag, what is needed is "dir=rtl" and voila. Check this:
>> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/
>
> Sorry for being late to the game again (I was traveling):
>
> How about if you try to translate the release notes first and we see if
> we can work out RTL issues while doing that?
>
> If that's okay with you, I'd add you to the correct ACL and you can try
> to have a go at that.

I wonder if our (somewhat oldish) installation already supports

http://moinmo.in/MultipleLanguagesSupport

[5 minutes later]

Yupp:

http://wiki.centos.org/RalphAngenendt/Testfoo
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