What part can Joomla play in the Multilingual Web. Presentation at W3C conference in Luxembourg ... community project, no company behind it ... joomla supports 57 languages ... joomla provides 3 options for translating websites ... 1 - machine translation using widgets from Google, Microsoft ... quality is not guaranteed, not indexed ... 2 - parallel translation using plugins, everything has to be translated ... translations are indexed ... the question is whether we should just translate or provide local content ... 3 - sites within site, translate content only when appropriate ... the key in joomla is categorise, add and show ... for each language different menu can be provided

1. MULTI-LINGUAL JOOMLA!
BRIAN TEEMAN MARCH 2012

2. SO WHAT IS JOOMLA?
IT’S SOFTWARE TO HELP YOU BUILD WEB SITES

3. USERS ACROSS THE WORLD
IN ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE

4. DOWNLOADED FOR FREE
OVER 29 MILLION TIMES

5. 2.9% OF TOP MILLION SITES
EVEN HIGHER FOR SMALLER SITES

6. 4,000 GOVERNMENT SITES
IN EVERY COUNTRY AND TERRITORY

7. CHANGING THE WORLD
MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT

8. 57 LANGUAGES
BUT THAT’S JUST THE SOFTWARE

9. WHAT ABOUT THE CONTENT
HOW CAN WE TRANSLATE IT?

10. WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY
TO MAKE THE MULTILINGUAL WEB HAPPEN

11. THREE JOOMLA OPTIONS
TO TRANSLATE YOUR WEB SITE

12. OPTION 1
MACHINE TRANSLATION

13. MACHINE TRANSLATION
WIDGETS LIKE GOOGLE / BING ETC

14. MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
NO CONTROL

15. MIND YOUR LANGUAGE
NOT ALWAYS CORRECT

16. NOT INDEXED
BY SEARCH ENGINES

17. OPTION 2
PARALLEL TRANSLATION

18. PARALLEL TRANSLATION
ADD-ONS LIKE JOOMFISH & FALANG Image © Hans Hillewaert / CC-BY-SA-3.0

19. TRANSLATE EVERYTHING
EXACT COPIES IN EACH LANGUAGE

20. CONTENT IS INDEXED
AND CAN BE SEARCHED

21. BUT WAIT
IS THAT CORRECT FOR YOUR WEB SITE

22. SHOULD WE TRANSLATE?
OR PROVIDE LOCAL CONTENT

23. IT DEPENDS!
ON YOUR CONTENT AND WEB SITE

24. OPTION 3
SITES WITHIN A SITE

25. PIPPI LÅNGSTRUMP (SWEDISH)
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING (ENGLISH)
PEPPI PITKÄTOSSU (FINISH)
PIPI PIKKSUKK (ESTONIAN)
FIFI BRINDACIER (FRENCH)
LÍNA LANGSOKKUR (ICELANDIC)
PIPPI CALZELUNGHE (ITALIAN)
PIPE PHAKIDOMYTE (GREEK)
PIPI DUGA CARAPA (CROATIAN)
CHANGWAZI PIPI (CHINESE)
PIPPI THUNG-TAOW YAOW (THAI)
PIPPI LANGSTRUMPF (GERMAN)
PIPI ŜTRUMPOLONGA (ESPERANTO)
TRANSLATE CONTENT
ONLY WHEN APPROPRIATE

26. LOCALISE CONTENT
LOCALISE ≠ TRANSLATE ≠ MULTILINGUAL

27. IT’S ALL ABOUT CASh
CATEGORISE - ADD - SHOW

28. WITH THE RIGHT TOOLS
THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS

29. ANY QUESTIONS?
ASK ME OVER A COFFEE OR BEER