[Typo3-doc] [Translation]

[Albrecht Mühlenschulte]

At first, hallo to everyone,

I am new to this group, and I am one of the often mentioned volonteers 
*g*. IMHO, it is very helpful, that there is a main language. I, myself, 
prefer english documentation over everything else, eventhough english is 
not my native language.

Whenever I touched a piece of (Opensource) Software, I almost always 
found the english documentation being much better than the german one. 
Translation mostly makes things wired (good example: running Debian with 
german locals just gives me the creeps ... and that is not, because the 
translation would be done badly, it is, because most technical terms 
concerning computers simply ARE english, not translating them leads to 
some kind of denglish, translating them leads to something that has to 
be translated again in order to be understood).

It is very kind to translate texts into other languages, but it should 
have the lowest priority possible. If someone wants to write his 
documentation in another language than english it should be translated 
(in coordination with the writer) into english as fast as possible.

To be honest: howmany percent of the TYPO3 admins and developers do you 
think are not able to understand english? Are there statistics about how 
often Pages in which languages are requested?

I think we should "forget" (at least at the beginning of the process), 
that there are other languages but english and get some things done (in 
the english wiki and the english documentation).

Just my 2cents,
	Albrecht

PS: maybe we should have a look at the gnome-project (or any other lager 
project) and how they handle their documentation and translation processes.