Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2672B9FB44D for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:25:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65999-08 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:24:58 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from svr2.hagander.net (svr2.hagander.net [88.198.128.226]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141339FB1CB for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:24:59 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.199.196] (c213-100-160-41.swipnet.se [213.100.160.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by svr2.hagander.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C64DCC50B for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:24:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45CF18A1.1090903@hagander.net> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:22:41 +0100 From: Magnus Hagander User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PostgreSQL www Subject: Multi-language to be or not to be X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.179 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200702/164 X-Sequence-Number: 11569 I'm working on a rewrite and major cleanup of parts of the code that runs the main website, and came across a thought. We currently have support for translation of news, events, surveys, quotes and pages. So far, we have zero news, zero events, zero surveys, zero quotes and zero pages translated. The only translated pages are the press information ones, and I don't count them because we don't actually use the translation infrastructure for them - we link specifically to each and every page. All the other translations live on completely separate sites - I think because they only translate parts of the information and also provide a lot of native information in that language. I know adding translation capabilities was one of the big requirements for the last rewrite. But I'd still like to bring up the question - should we bother keeping it, or just get rid of it? We thought we had a need then, but do we still have it? Getting rid of it will significantly simplify some code, and it will make the static mirrors about half the size they are now (we currently mirror every page both in English and in language-neutral (which means English again)). Thoughts? //Magnus