The Java Tutorials' Weblog
Thursday Jun 12, 2008
Java Tutorials Translations
We occasionally receive requests from people who would like to translate the tutorials into other languages and to provide it back to the community. While the published book, The Java Tutorial, is available in a few other languages such as simplified Chinese and German, this does not fill the enormous language gap.Much to my chagrin, I am a mono-linguist. We do have a few writers on staff fluent in other languages (Russian, French and Hindi, to name a few), but we just don't have time to translate our work.
But we would love to see the tutorials made available in many languages! In fact, on the new Community Portal there is a place on the wiki specifically dedicated to posting translations. So far, it's empty, but we hope to see contributions over time.
There is a thread on this subject on the forum. I would be curious to see what language you would most like to see in a translation.
-- Sharon Zakhour
Posted at 09:52AM Jun 12, 2008 by The Java Tutorial Team | Comments[5]
Hi!
In french, it will be so nice !
Posted by 88.123.23.202 on June 13, 2008 at 10:37 AM PDT #
Hi there!
Any bonuses available for contributing translations? (free Java shirts/mousepads/pens/pencils/books, etc.)
Just kidding ;-) I was going to do it anyway...
Posted by Lucas Vieites on June 16, 2008 at 06:08 AM PDT #
I wish I had some freebies to hand out! I can ask around, but am not aware of anything. :-)
Posted by Sharon Zakhour on June 16, 2008 at 11:57 PM PDT #
I've started to add a new section on the wiki: http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/JavaTutorialsInSpanish where I intend to put the translations I have finished. Right now I'm finding it complicated to move the html files into the wiki. Maybe I'll upload them to a regular web server and link them from the wiki.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Posted by Lucas Vieites on June 25, 2008 at 04:09 AM PDT #
I saw that, Lucas. I agree, the wiki is a bit cumbersome, but if you need some help with it, let me know.
Thanks!
Posted by Sharon Zakhour on June 27, 2008 at 03:33 PM PDT #