Multilingual documentation

Created on 25 January 2009, over 16 years ago
Updated 25 March 2025, about 2 months ago

Hello,

First of all, I am aware that this is probably opening a can of worms, but here it goes...

Is it being even considered to open the possibility for users to submit translations of documentation pages? Since drupal6 is already pretty robust in multi-language functionality, I think we should start offering this, and let the community start taking care of documentation in different languages. Some things we will need:

  • Links in landing page to switch the language and see only documentation in a specific language.
  • A team of translation moderators that would verify translations and approve them, per language.
    Perhaps we could add a status of unverified translation to those that aren't approved yet, so that users can still see them, and so they know that it hasn't been properly revised, so giving them the responsibility to double check things.
  • A tab or link to propose a translation of the page currently being displayed. Perhaps a block or something like that saying: "Did you find this page useful and would like to have it on your own language, Add a translation!" - so to encourage user implication in the translation process

Of course these are the most basic things we would need that I could think of, please add more if you have ideas.

If this isn't foreseeable in the immediate future, perhaps we can start defining usability and how to best approach this for when it is possible. I think it would greatly benefit the community, right now documentation on drupal in different languages is few, and spread across blogs. Having it here would concentrate the effort and result in a much richer documentation for each language.

Feature request
Status

Postponed: needs info

Component

Docs infrastructure

Created by

🇪🇸Spain manuel garcia

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