Monday, March 31, 2008

craigslist site in languages other than English: still not quite there...

looks like the only way to get Mozilla to post it is to provide the title AND the hyperlink to the new post, every new post -- how annoying... D.

(helping Mozilla: FYI, Explorer already posted this, way back:
craigslist site in languages other than English: still not quite there... ; there were succesive changes done to the links I talked about -- it was funny while it was happening... )

comic relief: now they got it translated in Italian for the French ...*lol* alright! I've looked enough at this... D.

MORE: they got some of the clauses traslated... here but not here, for instance...
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... ok, they got some more done... still, there is more they need to do: just for the basic translation, so that foreign language speakers with no knowledge of English can at least understand how to use the site and what they are agreeing with when posting etc. -- at least some of the clauses one supposedly agrees with when posting are still in English and the detailed help page is still in English only)...

Delia

P.S. All Canadians understand English (including those living in Quebec, of course) ... it's just that they feel they should be able to use French... ; with sites like Venezia (capital of the Italian Veneto region), it's a different story altogether -- there would need to be made clear, in the particular language, that the clauses one agrees with etc. are consistent throughout the site, just translated in the local language, so a German person, for instance, could use the Italian site when in Italy having no problem understanding what she is agreeing with when posting etc. --> these are the kind of things craigslist NEEDS to hire people to come up with and do the implementation (from ideas to actual foreign language support, if they claim to provide this)... they've been for profit for a very long time (they need to stop begging people to give them ideas, do the work as volunteers etc. -- plenty of people who are asked to help and end-up helping don't know craigslist is for profit and just how profitable it really is... craigslist must be aware of this -- so isn't what they are doing fraud? aren't they deceiving these people?) D.

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