multilingual-examples
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Examples of multilingual blogs
Multilingual blogs (or sites) spotted in the wild:
- Climb to the Stars
- Serendipity/Diacritics
- Dangereuse Trilingue
- Franz Kafka's diaries (de/en)
- Technologies du Langage (many posts translated rather faithfully in English)
Completely separate blogs
Parallel (everything translated one-to-one and side-by-side)
merdeinfrance (tone may be offensive)
Parallel (language choice passed through URL)
Side-by-side
Two separate blogs in distinct languages, not aligned by date or in translated pairs.
Interwoven (paragraph by paragraph)
Two languages per post (complete translation)
Two languages per post (toggleable by Javascript)
ozh (wordpress)
One language per post
People with parallel blogs (not really a solution to the problem stated, more like a workaround):
- [3] and [4] (different content)
- [5] and [6]
- [7] and [8] (a freelance translator's blog: identical content, but separate comment threads)
Code Samples
From climbtothestars.org
<div class="post" lang="en">
<p class="date-permalink">permalink here</p>
<h2 class="post-title" id="post-1259"><a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/01/22/requirements-for-a-multilingual-wordpress-plugin/"
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Requirements for a Multilingual Wordpress Plugin">
Requirements for a Multilingual Wordpress Plugin</a></h2>
<div class="other-excerpt" lang="fr"><p>Quelques réflexions concernant un plugin
multilingue pour WordPress.</p>
</div>
<div class="post-content">
<p>My blog has been bilingual for a long time now. Rest of post content...</p>
</div>
</div>
From serendipity.lascribe.net
<div class="post" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"> <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-247"><i>wicket</i> = <i>guichet</i>!</h3> <div class="postbody clearfix"> <div class="meta1"> <p><span class="otherversion" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <a href="http://serendipity.lascribe.net/ling-lang/2005/12/wicket-guichet/?lp_lang_view=en" title="English version" rel="alternate" hreflang="en">※ english version </a> </span> [...]</p>
From the Canadian government
<html lang="en"> [...] <td valign="bottom" width="150"><table width="150" summary="Our tables are used for the page layout. Nos tables sont utilisées pour la mise en page." border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="75" align="center"><a title="English" href="/main_e.html"> <img src="/images/englishbt.gif" alt="English" height="27" border="0" width="91"></a></td> <td></td> <td width="75" align="center"><a title="Français" href="/main_f.html" lang="fr"> <img src="/images/francaisbt.gif" alt="Français" height="27" border="0" width="91"></a></td> </tr>
From Wikipedia
The Wikipedia navigation uses no attributes, except for language-specific classes. Example http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm%C3%BCtz :
<nowiki> <ul> <li class="interwiki-ar"> <a href="http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3">العربية</a></li> <li class="interwiki-bg"> <a href="http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%86">Български</a></li> <li class="interwiki-cs"><a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Česky</a></li> <li class="interwiki-en"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">English</a></li> <li class="interwiki-eo"><a href="http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Esperanto</a></li> <li class="interwiki-es"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Español</a></li> <li class="interwiki-fr"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Français</a></li> <li class="interwiki-is"><a href="http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Íslenska</a></li> <li class="interwiki-lt"><a href="http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomoucas">Lietuvių</a></li> <li class="interwiki-nl"><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Nederlands</a></li> <li class="interwiki-pl"><a href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C5%82omuniec">Polski</a></li> <li class="interwiki-ru"> <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%86">Русский</a></li> <li class="interwiki-sv"><a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc">Svenska</a></li> </ul>
</nowiki>