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I am in favour of option 3 and then use that to ask them if they think
it's ok. It's a bit cheeky but it makes it much easier to explain.

I think (from a slightly less superficial look at the menu bar in the editor) that a
redirection page with the "right" name could be set up...

Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

There is version management built into MediaWiki, allowing easy
restoration of previous versions of pages, file uploads, etc., and TDF
is pretty diligent taking regular in server backups, so not too many
worries there.

Ok, that's good enough for me. I've got all my paranoia quota used up elsewhere.

:slight_smile:
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

Hi :slight_smile:
If you can fix-up a menu that looks about the same but that actually works then that would be fantastic.  The one that is there at the moment is used on a lot of other pages so we would need a 2nd one or a custom made one just for the Faq page(s).

If you are not sure that you can do it but think there is a chance then go for it. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Ok, here's how to do it.

Create a page with the right name/in the right place (I don't know
how that works, should I?), and on that page put

#REDIRECT [[FR/FAQ/Base]]

I suspect it needs to be on the first line.

I *think* you'll then find that Robert *is* your father's brother
:slight_smile:

Is there a FAQ in any other languages? All the entries on the top
menu suggest not...
Perhaps it'll be easier to translate from English than from French?

All the best
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

Err, that really ought to be

#REDIRECT [[FR/FAQ/]]

Of course :frowning:

Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks Mark :))

I created the page and copy&pasted your coding into the page and it works.
So i get the smartie points for your work there. Thanks :slight_smile:

For translating i think people are more familiar with the idea of
translating from the English. It's inevitable that other teams are going to
have things completed ahead of the English/American and that it might be
easier to translate directly from the, for example Brazilian to Portuguese
but so far i think work-flow has been established as being from English so
they would probably feel more comfortable doing Brazilian - English -
Portuguese. Ok, that is probably a bad example as those 2 teams probably
are used to working together well, more than most others.

Hopefully tighter integration between a wider variety of different languages
might happen in the future given that uptake of LO is lower in countries
where the dominant language is English. In most of Europe LO&OOo's market
share is allegedly around 20%. In Vietname the government has allegedly
just made a ruling to use ODF instead of MS formats in their public sector.
In England i still get even Gnu&Linux fans saying that MS Office "is better"
and then complain at length about all the problems they have with MS.
Hopefully things are going to improve on all fronts now that Sun aren't
trying to hide us, just my opinion.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi Mark, Tom, *,

Is there a FAQ in any other languages? All the entries on the top
menu suggest not...

IMHO this should be a own thread with a speaking header.
I followed Tom's changes [1] on the main wiki page for the FAQs and asked myself how we should structurize the wiki pages to get the pages translated e.g. in German or other languages.
The main structure for a translated page is seen here [2].
So how to get it in the FAQ-structure?
The English page is e.g:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/137
Following [2] in German it should be:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/137/de

But is this the practicable way for this?
Maybe there should be a guideline for the FAQ pages and its translations. But - as mentioned yet - this should be a new thread.

[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&curid=1&diff=45460&oldid=44681
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Multilingual_Wiki

Perhaps it'll be easier to translate from English than from French?

:wink:
This is a question of learning the right foreign language.

Grüße
k-j