On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 11:10 PM, bhuztez wrote:
> The document clearly states that "You'll see a message for each > database table it creates". > > I guess Jason Ma had a hard time reading the document because it is > written in English. Native Chinese speakers who are not quite familiar > with English will feel desperate when they had to read serveral pages > of document in English. Just imagine how desperate will you be if you > have to read pages of document in Chinese when you just learned Ni > Hao. I studied Mandarin in high school, so I know *exactly* how desperate you get :-) However, my point stands -- if he "just typed what was in the tutorial", then he *won't* get the result he described. He's doing *something* else. I have great sympathy and patience for anyone working through a language barrier, but I don't have sympathy for someone who doesn't follow the instructions, and then blames us because our instructions are wrong. > Django is getting more and more popular in China recently. More and > more people there are asking questions like how to do this or that in > Django, most of the time, it is just because it is too hard for them > to understand the document on their own. I propose that Django has a > Chinese translation of its document. Sure, there is a huge amount of > work. If core team decides to work on this, I would like to help. If someone wants to take on the task of writing and maintaining a translating of the tutorial (or the whole documentation base), I'm sure we can find a way to host it. We've always been very proud of our internationalization infrastructure, and I see no reason why this shouldn't be extended to our documentation. At one point, I believe there was a French translation of the docs; however, I don't know if that is still being maintained. Ideally, we'd have some sort of toolset to help with this sort of translation (just like we have Transifex for the in-app strings) -- but failing that, simple text with a clear warning that it possibly lags behind the English translation will probably suffice. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
