February 15, 2002 at 12:18 pm
Have you ever considered translating portions of your site into other languages?
You could easily find how many users are from other countries and determine where the most need is. I imagine you have many users that know Spanish better than English and could benefit more from articles and other areas of your site if they were translated into Spanish.
If your only reason for not doing so is for the lack of a translater, then I volunteer my services since I know Spanish and English fluently.
Robert Marda
Robert W. Marda
Billing and OSS Specialist - SQL Programmer
MCL Systems
February 15, 2002 at 12:46 pm
Robert, we'll take a look at it. Im not sure you'd be able to keep with the volume though! Seriously, we'll put it in on the agenda for discussion.
Andy
February 15, 2002 at 12:49 pm
I didn't imply I could keep up. I know I couldn't. I don't have that much free time. However the most read or highest rated articles could be translated. Unless you had more translators the other languages would never contain as much info as English. However, for some people some thing would be better than nothing.
Robert Marda
Robert W. Marda
Billing and OSS Specialist - SQL Programmer
MCL Systems
February 15, 2002 at 1:45 pm
I think this would be a great thing, but then I remember this site is FREE. The way it usually works is that you select a language and a cookie is stored. I think it would be nice if there was a tool that automatically translated English to another language. Hmmm sounds like a great hobby for off hours, develop a program that translates based on the dictionaries, would work if you don't spell like me
William H. Hoover
Louisville, Ky
William H. Hoover
Louisville, Ky
sweeper_bill@yahoo.com
February 15, 2002 at 2:16 pm
Interesting idea. I know we have a bunch of spanish users, but overwhelmingly we are US, UK, and Australia.
If we could get some people who wanted to translate some things, I'm sure we'd host it. Have to talk with the others at our next meeting.
Steve Jones
February 16, 2002 at 9:49 am
Try BabelFish from AltaVista. It can do translations of web pages including SQL Server Central's. Given, it's a rough translation, but it does do them. And it's a free service:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
K. Brian Kelley
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bkelley/
K. Brian Kelley
@kbriankelley
February 16, 2002 at 10:56 am
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