OpenSUSE Translation Guide detail

From openSUSE

This is a more verbose guide to make it for you and us easier to set up a new wiki.

Pages

Here is a list of Pages that need to be translated first, before we setup a new wiki:

Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
Download
Documentation
SDB
How to Participate
Communicate
Project_overview
Projects
Roadmap
Frequently_Asked_Questions
Contact

Header

Please add this at the begining of each page:

<!-- INT information
 INT:title: <title of the page in the translated language> 
 -->

If there are already pages in the en.opensuse.org wiki, for example <Language Code>-<English Title>, please save the source (the wiki source, not html!) and add the header above. Use english filenames to make it easier for us.

Make a tar.gz archive of the pages and send them to the SUSE/Novell employee who contacted you.

Words

We need also some single words to be translated:

Welcome_to_openSUSE.org 
Communicate   
Download   
Report a Bug               

Paste this into the mail.

Sidebar

The left sidebar needs to be translated, to look at the content use MediaWiki:Sidebar, click on "view source" to see the source. Copy and paste it and change it in an editor of your choice. Paste the translation into the mail.

Templates

There are some templates which should be translated:

Template:NotTranslated

This page is not translated, here you can find the [[{{{1}}}|english page]].

Translate this to your language and paste it in the mail. Check the translated pages for used templates and translate them also, for example Download uses also:

 {{DownloadNavigation}}
 {{Download Translations}}
 {{ReleasesTable}}

You should find all templates by grepping for "{{". You can view the templates by using http://en.opensuse.org/Template:<templatename_without_{{}}>

Checklist

• subscribed to opensuse-wiki
• send mail to opensuse-wiki that you want to translate
• all needed pages translated, with header, compressed as tar.gz
• translated the few words mentioned above
• translated sidebar
• translated templates
• everything is in wiki syntax, not html
• send the mail

Some things above looks not necessary, but make it easier for us to put the pages into the new wiki. If you have questions about the process, please ask on the opensuse-wiki mailinglist.

Thanks!