website improvements and translations

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Quick question... I had set up the git repository that reflects the
> website content at github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface-website hoping
> that this would make it easier for people to
>
> a) improve the text on the website overall - and thanks to Henrik and a
> couple others (I don't ask for SOBs for the website, so I only know your
> github names, fezzington and h2sk1) for providing improvements
>
> and
>
> b) make it easier to translate the announcement and other posts into our
> key languages.
>
> The website has far fewer languages than the app itself; we have most
> content in Spanish (a HUGE thank you to Salvador), some in German (mein
> Tauch-Deutsch ist schrecklich), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish,
> Polish and Russian. But so far the announcement has only been translated
> into Spanish, and I don't think I've seen any other pull requests to fix
> the rest of the translations (many of the pages have greatly diverged from
> the English master pages, according to Google Translate).
>
> So I wonder if people just don't have time (trust me, that I understand),
> aren't interested (also understandable), if this still is too hard with
> all the HTML and special code for the theme and the shortcodes that allow
> me to link to the various files and versions. If it's the latter, I'd love
> to hear ideas how to fix this to make it easier. My assumption had been
> that this git repo would be much easier than giving people access to the
> WordPress site...
>
> So basically I'm trying to figure out how to get more translations and
> updates to the existing translations - ideally without over-burdening a
> small group of people who already do most of the work.
>

For me, as usual, time is crazy.
I'll try to play with the website on the weekend.


> Thanks
>
> /D
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