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Web 2.0 goes to Babel: Multilingual websites and user-supplied content |
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Written by Jim DeLaHunt
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
 I gave a presentation on " Web 2.0 goes to Babel: Multilingual websites and user-supplied content" to the 32nd Internationalization and Unicode Conference on September 9, 2008.
Abstract: In today's web, it's straightforward to publish in any single language. The cool Web 2.0 sites are organised around user-supplied content: postings, tags, comments, photos, videos. But what happens when you try to do all that in more than one language at a time? Do you translate the user-supplied content? And how? Can you crowdsource the localisation? This talk looks at the business, technical, and design issues of multilingual web sites. We'll look at role models, examine social translation, see how technologies like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, HTTP, and URLs fit in. Get inspired to add another language to your site! |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 )
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Default-language patch for sh404SEF published |
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Written by Jim DeLaHunt
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
I have just made a patch to sh404SEF, one of the modules that extends the Joomla! content management system that runs this website. What the patch does is to ensure that all three of the languages supported on this website are treated equally in the URLs of this site. Without the patch, the "/en/" tag for URLs of English-language content would be missing in some cases. Making this patch involved understanding the complex PHP code of sh404SEF, and making surgical improvements in four places across two files. Details about this patch, and about how Joomla!, Joom!Fish, and sh404SEF interact, follow below the jump. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 March 2008 )
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