On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:08:56AM -0500, Michael Tiemann wrote: >> Máirín Duffy wrote: >> >Hi Jon, >> > >> >William Jon McCann wrote: >> >>I think we'd be a little put off if mailing lists, wikis, bugs, or IRC >> >>conversations were conducted in many languages at the same time. For >> >>these we've adopted a lingua franca. I propose we do the same for the >> >>"default" Fedora Planet feed. >> > >> >Many multilingual posters post both in their native tongue and >> >also provide an English translation on the bottom. What do you >> >think about those posts and their appropriateness for the main >> >planet feed? >> I think they rock! I think they shout from the rooftops that this >> is an international community, and an inclusive one, too. > > I love the fact that we have people conversing about Fedora on their > blogs from around the world. In fact, my bet is that we're missing a > big chunk of conversation going on internationally, and that not > everyone involved is including their material in our feed. > > But at the same time, I have to acknowledge that (sadly) I'm not much > of a polyglot other than some German -- our German friends know my > limitations pretty well :-) -- so I can't read or respond to most of > these posts in any effective way. Machine translation isn't usually > helpful especially when reading nuances. > > I would love to be able to select languages and topics for what I see > on the Planet, with the default being all topics for the lingua franca > only. I don't know how one achieves this with the planet software we > use; perhaps it comes down to having some sort of app wrapping around > the planet to provide these features. Here's a development approach that comes in mind: 1. Read the blog post's tags in case it finds the name of a language there. If none, guess the language and if the guess has a high enough confidence, categorize it under the specific language, otherwise, assume it's English. Store the association between blog post - language on a DB. 2. Make specific languages available under http://planet.fpo/l/en+fr+de/. 3. Allow the user to select the languages he understands on the sidebar. Store them in a cookie. 4. Show in sidebar only feeds which are blogging in my languages. 5. Use the browser's default language to highlight blog posts which are in my native language. -d -- Dimitris Glezos Transifex: The Multilingual Publishing Revolution http://www.transifex.net/ -- http://www.indifex.com/ _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board