The julia homepage when viewed in a different locale than english is partially translated. While I (as a french speaker) appreciate the effort, this is very confusing. This is a copy-paste of the homepage as I see it: Compilateur JIT à haute performance Julia’s LLVM-based just-in-time (JIT) compi…

This has been an ongoing discussion at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julialang.github.com/issues/549 . The gist of it is that @Ismael-VC set up a nice Transifex interface for translating the julialang.org website ( #252 ), and set it up so that only translations that were reasonably complete would show …

One problem is that even if the homepage is fully translated at some point (that was the case for French some time ago), as soon as a change is introduced English reappears. Translation teams need to be really reactive to avoid this.

I think that’s why the threshold is not set to only show 100% translated pages. That way visitors can see that a translation exists and that it’s incomplete, and hopefully will then contribute the missing pieces. As a reader, I personally prefer the inconvenience of seeing such pieces of untranslat…

It’s 2017, almost 2018. Is translation even necessary anymore? Personally I get distressed when my computer tries to interact with me in german.

The current Transifex behavior is that, when a string is updated, it shows the new untranslated string, I’m making a petition to the Transifex staff to add a mode in which instead of doing this, the translated pages retain the translated strings even if they are not updated and in sync with the Engl…

Please please please don’t. It’s infinitely worse seeing an outdated string than an untranslated one, especially for a fast-moving target like julia.

Do you have any other suggestion apart from removing the translations? Not that it’s not an option, but please think about the work of all the people involved too (around 100 good willing folks from some 20 different languages) why they did it, and why they felt this is needed. I think we can find…

[image] antoine-levitt: I doubt the pool of people interested in Julia who don’t know english is very large That may be (relatively), but that is what I want to change, bring more people to Julia, and as a programming instructor, that loves to teach to kids, I can not require them to learn En…

About the homepage, I don’t have any good suggestions other than removing the translations, no. It feels like such a huge effort to maintain a complete set of translations that I don’t see how that is workable without severely hampering the ease of change for the reference English version. Outdated …

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Tamas_Papp December 15, 2017, 9:50am 2

I agree with you assessment and suggestion. The sustainability of translation efforts has come up in connection with the manual, too.

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