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Move language selection to a dedicated page? #14
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A vote in favour of the language page.
I think there should be some quick link to the language chooser visible on every page though, perhaps with the globe symbol or suchlike.
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I think there should be some quick link to the language chooser visible on every page though, perhaps with the globe symbol or suchlike.
Agreed. :)
Would a dedicated language page mean we lose the ability to jump from one translated page to another?
For example, if I'm on https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html I can select Spanish from the dropdown and am taken to https://docs.python.org/es/3/library/exceptions.html
There's great utility in this. If you end up on an English page via Google search or other article page, you can hop to your own language.
Similarly, if a translated page is not up-to-date you can hop back to the source English page.
... and I quite like how React has handled their presentation for the documentation translations: https://reactjs.org/languages
This site has been archived. The new one is https://react.dev/ and it does have translations (https://translations.react.dev/, for example: https://es.react.dev/), but curiously I don't see a languages page or any other links from the English site.
Reacted by Maciej Olko and Manuel KaufmannI don't see why we shouldn't have both, it would be useful for linking to. A good use case would be python.org "Non-English documentation" section which currently links to the very outdated wiki.
This site has been archived. The new one is https://react.dev/ and it does have translations (https://translations.react.dev/, for example: https://es.react.dev/), but curiously I don't see a languages page or any other links from the English site.
They still have this page, which is very nice IMO as it has contribution links!
I have been browsing various documentation sites, as part of exploration for #1, and I quite like how React has handled their presentation for the documentation translations: https://reactjs.org/languages
By having a separate page, the page can now contain:
I think all of these are basically non-feasible for a dropdown-based language selector like we have today on docs.python.org.