RE: Emacs user manual in Spanish

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > That's how it works on Emacs Wiki, for example.
> > Users interested in translating a given wiki page
> > do so.  They need not be interested, qualified, or
> > have the time to translate other pages.  Every
> > contribution can help.  And others can then update
> > pages or fix both technical and translation bugs.
> >
> > Perhaps the HTML GNU Emacs manuals could offer a
> > similar possibility: Allow for anyone to translate
> > a given section into a given language, or update
> > such a translated section.
> 
> That's a very interesting idea. How hard do you think it
> would be to create a wiki version of the Emacs manual ?

I don't know.  I'm no expert on any of this.  Alex
Schroeder, the wiki maintainer, might know something
about this.

Certainly the text for a section could be copied and
pasted to a wiki page manually.  But (1) formatting
would presumably be lost and need to be created anew
to make the page user-friendly. And (2) probably you
meant doing so programmatically - I can't speak to that.

And as I wondered out loud previously, there might be
some problem wrt the GNU copyright and allowing ad hoc
modification (dunno).  Perhaps there could be some way
to have an unofficial, modifiable copy (dunno).

> There are plenty of translation projects that work on an online
> interface and where translators contribute just a few paragraphs,
> and the quality is just sufficient to be useful (and it can be
> updated by anyone else).