AboutThisPage?

This page is more a kind of a technical planning document for the multilingual relaunch of the website for the FOSS Project DeepaMehta which shall be located at the web address ​http://www.deepamehta.de. The latest content related planning documents are to find at our ​new dummy page.

The website team concerned with this relaunch tries to share their current main considerations on the technical buildup/configuration of the website on this page.

Multilingual Setup

For the launch of our new site English (as default langauge for all kinds of visitors) and German (for visitors with a german browser setup) could be fine.

Drupal7 allows language detection based on the visitors browser configuration, per URL, per Selection (Session), per configuration related to a logged in user.

Proposal: activate language detection in drupal for the visiting browser and it would be great if the website reflects these settings in the url with a e.g. prefix ~/de/frontpage for german frontpage resp. ~/en/frontpage for english frontpage

Proposal: when reading a page i would find it cool if there's a link, read this page in "spanish" if it's there resp. "translate this page to x"..

Question: how can a person of the community add a new translation for a new language? is it good practice to just start with a configuration of some of the big languages, e.g. arabic, chinese, russian, egyptian, spanish, french?

If the Node is multilingual (a language is chosen instead of "language neutral") a "translate"-tab is shown if the user has the right to translate. Klick that tab and chose a language. A form will appear, which contains the artikel in the original language. Translate as appropriate. I would start with just a basic set of languages (en, de) and provide some translation guidelines. It should be mentioned what to do, if a user wants to add a translation in an additional language (contact the team). --Rolf

Current Content Types

• Article == News Entry (Title, Body, Date, Tags)
• Basic Page == Static Webpage (Title, Body, Tags)
• Gallery == Set of pictures?

Extension Proposal:

• User-Profile-Content (Community Profile)
• Application-Page (Plugin Pages)
• Expressions (Quotes on DeepaMehta)

Users, Roles & Permissions

• Administrators
• Editors
• Users

About the registration process for new users.

Proposal: free to register for anyone for account related functionality, language setting, profile page

Publishing of content, freely or moderated.

Proposal: editors can freely publish, newly registerd users cannot edit/publish content except their user-profile

Additional set of features

• activate url-path automodule
• spambot utility
• file upload/esp. image-upload into pages and articles along with preset resize settings

About Migration Process

• collect old urls which shall be maintained