Chinese Translation

[Doom9]

@scipio: that option has already been added to the poll.. but I think the English and German mirror are more reflective of the recent state of the THG site than others.. just like www.doom9.org is where you get to see the latest news/articles/etc from all the doom9 mirrors.

[Scipio]

@doom9: yep, I know. guess who voted for the symbol option in your poll ;)

I've added reduced flags to page 5 of this thread. (pixel-height: 15, just like the other flags) but we can wait for the poll to end. this kind of poll is not too useful imho, because it depends largely on which party is more present in this forum... the RPC people will of course vote for their flag, the Taiwanese want more "equal" treatment I think... so the result depends on how many people of these two parties take part in that poll.

[andante]

@Scipio
the two flags from THG is good, but if resiezed to 25x15 the "big5" and "GB" characters in the flags will hard to see, and those are main characters to distinguish between Simplified and Traditional Chinese....

[Kennyshin]

Originally posted by Doom9
@Kennyshin: that's the old version which they've dumped now.. but you can suggest that as an alternative in the poll ;)

Yep, I knew that. The Tom's Hardware .com front page has only pull-down menu for other languages like Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, etc. But when you go to Simplified Chinese page, there is the gif files linking to other pages with similar pictures.

Unfortunately, the Korean THG was removed from the THG main page while it is still there in the old (not yet updated) pages like Simplified Chinese THG front page. The guys (actually a reseller based in Seoul that advertised their own business for profits) that started THG Korean were not updating their pages for years so it was natural for THG main to remove the link.

I totally agree with Scipio about the poll and the final decision.

[Scipio]

When are the Chinese translations announced and linked?


http://big5.doom9.org/ seems to be ready to become official (at least to me). The same goes for http://gb.doom9.org/

Both have completed the "checklist" (contact-info page, doc-overview with flags, one project-leader/coordinator etc.) as demanded in the translation guidelines.


the only question seems to be the flag/logo/sign used for those languages - but other than that they deserve to become official....

[Doom9]

that decision is up to andante and mrly respectively. They already know they qualify (I told them so multiple times) but it's their decision when to go live and I wouldn't want to pressure anyone.

[Scipio]

perhaps they want to have everything done before they go online? seems strange to me, but who knows what their intention with this delay.