DrupalCon Paris Muiltilingual Panel
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The document is about a multilingual panel at DrupalCon Paris, featuring presentations aimed at site builders focusing on real-world experience in building multilingual sites. Key topics include localization, content translation, and improvements in Drupal versions 5.x to 7.x. It highlights contributions from various speakers and invites audience participation for questions and discussion.
![Multilingual Panel - Doug Green How to contact me: [email_address] d.o douggreen twitter dougjgreen Where I work partner with CivicActions, DrupalCon sponsor www.civicactions.com Credentials lots of Drupal contributions, mostly coder and search spent the last year working on a multilingual site CivicActions also did Amnesty International and Drupal 6.x i18n contrib work for Sony nvcxk5](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/drupalconparis-090904040332-phpapp01/85/DrupalCon-Paris-Muiltilingual-Panel-4-320.jpg)
![Multilingual Panel - Zohar Stolar How to contact me: [email_address] d.o. z.stolar Where I work owner of Linnovate (linnovate.net) Credentials Lead teams building several multilingual sites nvcxk5](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/drupalconparis-090904040332-phpapp01/85/DrupalCon-Paris-Muiltilingual-Panel-8-320.jpg)
![Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points Themed graphics - by using naming convention, we can present localized graphics Translation 404: http://drupal.org/project/translation404 Alters core's language switcher to always show a language switcher, even if a translation is not present. On the destination page, you get a 404 page with a list of actions in all enabled languages: [translate the content / go back / go to language home] (hookable) nvcxk5](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/drupalconparis-090904040332-phpapp01/85/DrupalCon-Paris-Muiltilingual-Panel-10-320.jpg)
![Multilingual Panel - Damien Tournoud How to contact me: [email_address] d.o Damien Tournoud Where I work af83, DrupalCon sponsor, www.af83.com Credentials conference organizer Drupal 7.x contributions nvcxk5](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/drupalconparis-090904040332-phpapp01/85/DrupalCon-Paris-Muiltilingual-Panel-15-320.jpg)
DrupalCon Paris Muiltilingual Panel
- 1. DrupalCon Paris Multilingual Panel Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationalized projects too! Yes, I know everything is spelled wrong :) that's kinda the point
- 2. Multilingual Panel - Join Presentation This is a Google presentation Join us now: http://tinyurl.com/nvcxk5 Then click "View Together"
- 3. Multilingual Panel - Overview Our Plan Panel Discussion, please think of questions Three short presentations Geared towards site builders Real World experience on building multilingual sites Questions and Answers What We'll cover in the presentations Decision points, things you should think about Drupal 5.x, 6.x, 7.x Localization Translating Content, Taxonomies, and Menus nvcxk5
- 4. Multilingual Panel - Doug Green How to contact me: [email_address] d.o douggreen twitter dougjgreen Where I work partner with CivicActions, DrupalCon sponsor www.civicactions.com Credentials lots of Drupal contributions, mostly coder and search spent the last year working on a multilingual site CivicActions also did Amnesty International and Drupal 6.x i18n contrib work for Sony nvcxk5
- 5. Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points Drupal 5.x t() string registration or gettext.php !@ instructions to translators use php input format views/panels use php input for cck options be prepared to patch contrib module, especially in 5.x missing t()'s might not of translated content, i.e., panels titles in 5.x 6.x is better ... partially due to work for Sony another example, hierarchical_select nvcxk5
- 6. Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points Taxonomies locale i18nsync i18nsync Drupal 5.x "experimental", Drupal 6.x "standard" Taxonomies Images nvcxk5
- 7. Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points Organic Groups each og group is a translated node causes problems that content uploaded to one og not accessible on other ogs solution, hack using nodeapi to reattach stuff to "default" language node but then requires all sorts of other hacks to display things right Show rareplanet.org (time permitting) and point out problems nvcxk5
- 8. Multilingual Panel - Zohar Stolar How to contact me: [email_address] d.o. z.stolar Where I work owner of Linnovate (linnovate.net) Credentials Lead teams building several multilingual sites nvcxk5
- 9. Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points " English is a kind of Arabic " (My 4 years old daughter). In Drupal there's one language to rule them all, and the rest of them are only more of the same. The ease of building multilingual sites, without really knowing the language. Taxonomies and i18nsync - Doug covered some of this Cultural issues Drupal 6.x: added translation to core. nvcxk5
- 10. Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points Themed graphics - by using naming convention, we can present localized graphics Translation 404: http://drupal.org/project/translation404 Alters core's language switcher to always show a language switcher, even if a translation is not present. On the destination page, you get a 404 page with a list of actions in all enabled languages: [translate the content / go back / go to language home] (hookable) nvcxk5
- 15. Multilingual Panel - Damien Tournoud How to contact me: [email_address] d.o Damien Tournoud Where I work af83, DrupalCon sponsor, www.af83.com Credentials conference organizer Drupal 7.x contributions nvcxk5
- 16. Multilingual Panel - Damien's Points Drupal 7.x: some nice improvements to the multilingual support. Refactored interface-text translation UI. Translation contexts Translatable fields from translation duplication to translation in place One of Dries' code freeze exceptions http://drupal.org/node/282191 (TF#1: Allow different interface language for the same path) http://drupal.org/node/565480 (TF#2: Multilingual field handling) http://drupal.org/node/557292 (TF#3: Convert node titles to fields) http://drupal.org/node/539110 (TF#4: Translatable fields UI) nvcxk5
- 17. Multilingual Panel - Q&A Questions & Answers http://tinyurl.com/nvcxk5