[FM Discuss] FM futures

[Tomi Toivio]

2011/8/8 <mokurai at earthtreasury.org>

>
> Nevertheless language and country communities will need to create some
> original content. This is an issue with Circumvention, which is different
> in each country, and with IMEs for non-Latin scripts. It will be much more
> so for textbook replacements, where substantial local content is needed
> for health, agriculture, art, music, literature, history, geography,
> business, and civics.


Seems like approximately 20% of Finnish manuals have been written here
instead of just translated. But some of the translated manuals have been
updated into new software versions - I don't know if this would need to be
centralized somehow as well, so that the updates wouldn't be done separately
in each language... And even then there is a need to document the version of
the software that has been fully localized, which isn't always the latest
available version... It might be impossible to synchronize the updates.

Circumvention is kinda funny since it seems like we don't have any
censorship right now, so it would be a bit too early to translate that one.
Maybe it should be available pre-emptively. :)

But one thing that should be considered is what to do when there is another
wiki focusing on the same area. Like there already is one wiki doing Linux
command line documentation and they don't have a long manual like FM has,
but on the other hand it doesn't seem like they are going to edit the FM
manual either... Would it be possible to kind of share the manual between
two wikis? Ie. copy the manual into the other wiki and then copy the changes
back to FM every 6 months or so? This is more important for a smaller
language community, since it seems like there necessarily isn't a huge
amount of potential contributors to FLOSS documentation, and even these are
splitting into various overlapping documentation projects.

-- 
Best Regards
Tomi Toivio
Open Source Coordinator
http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
tomi at flossmanuals.net
+358445488856
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