[okfn-help] Multilingual support for OKFN sites?

Wed Mar 21 19:05:29 UTC 2012

Hi Charalmpos,

Would you mind explaining the details of the below language plugin and the
exact elements of it that you'd find useful re: multilingual website usage?
We just want to make sure we download the correct one, as it will affect
all of the OKFN blogfarm. Given this, it is also preferred (as Rufus has
noted below) that such a plugin would be non-proprietary if possible.

Thanks in advance!

Kat

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| Global Chapters and OKFestival
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 28 February 2012 13:05, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > As the OKFN becomes more international, we've been welcoming new regional
> > groups and chapters to use our Wordpress blogfarm - and several of these
> > have mentioned having problems applying non-Latin language characters to
> our
> > sites. An example of such issues is on our Github here
> > https://github.com/okfn/wordpress-theme-okfn/issues/14
>
> This issue seems to have nothing to do with multi-lingualism per se
> but to do with our theme ...
>
> Also, to check: what is it people need to do? Do we need 'full'
> multilingual (i.e. multiple languages versions of the same text). Most
> of the multilingual plugins are about doing this but if we just need
> better support for character sets that a different matter.
>
> > Charalmpos from the OKFN:LOCAL Greece group (CC'd here) has recommended
> that
> > we use a paid plug-in like http://wpml.org which makes it easy to work
> with
> > multilingual sites (and has 40 language options). The only problem with
> this
> > is that it's proprietary, which we all have qualms about.
>
> We really do prefer non-proprietary for this. Also before we spend
> money (and more importantly effort) installing and configuring this we
> probably need a little bit clear idea of exactly what hte problem is
> and what the needs are going forward ...
>
> > There are other options here
> > https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress (thanks Rufus) but
> I'm
> > not sure which one would be best. Does anyone else have experience with
> > using multilingual support Wordpress plugins, or an opinion on which one
> we
> > decide to use?
>
> This might be better on okfn-discuss rather than okfn-help and it also
> might be a question for the wordpress forums.
>
> BTW: I appreciate it can be a bit frustrating to take a decision on
> this but these are reasonably complex technical matters and generally
> involve non-trivial cost.
>
> I should also say that the sysadmin team have discussed the problem of
> resourcing wordpress support -- to be clear we only have one
> designated sysadmin at the moment for this sort of thing (Nils) and he
> only does ~2d per week (though we hvae a hosting provider who deals
> with core support like OS upgrades, backups etc). The rest of the
> sysadmin-ing on wordpress is done in bits of people's time.
>
> Rufus
>
> > Thanks :) Kat
> >
> > | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator
> > | Global Chapters and OKFestival
> > | Open Knowledge Foundation | London
> > | OKFN.org | Twitter @kat_braybrooke
> >
> >
> >
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