[tei-council] Internationalisation - two issues

[Laurent Romary]

That's weird. When I search on pages in English (advanced search) for  
"addspan tei p5" I keep getting the same Japanese and Chinese reasults  
(plus a ref to http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/it/html/CO.html 
; don't ask me). I am using the defaults parameters, I swear (see  
attached screen copy in an another message).

Is there a way to master this? I would not necessarily want a search  
machine on our web site, since I know I am not the only one to access  
the guidelines by means of the general Google search...


Le 22 oct. 08 à 18:22, James Cummings a écrit :

> Hi Laurent,
>
> I've tried googling on .com .co.uk .fr and .de for 'addspan tei p5'  
> and in all cases The first hit is the english one at:
>
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-addSpan.html
>
> I double-checked my search preferences and I have 'Search for pages  
> written in any language' rather than English or something specified.
>
> Can you confirm how you are googling for this (i.e. what site, what  
> search preferences?)
>
> However, it does make me realise that we have no good search  
> mechanism on the site.  We could do customised google searches  
> fairly easily for each of the language versions of the guidelines,  
> couldn't we?  Or a search page which allowed options of the entire  
> TEI-C site, the P5 Guidelines (in whatever languages), etc.
>
> Best,
> -James
>
>
> Laurent Romary wrote:
>> Dear (Seb in particular :-}),
>> As I was trying to figure out the best strategy with regards the   
>> <addSpan> thread, I came across the problem/issue/feature? that   
>> googling the TEI now points randomly to any page in whatever  
>> language.  For instance "addspan tei p5" yields the following  
>> sequence of results:
>> www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/ja/html/ref-addSpan.html
>> www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/REF-ELEMENTS.html
>> tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/zh-tw/html/ref-addSpan.html
>> tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/P5/Guidelines-web/it/html/CO.html
>> and that's all! (I mean links to our own documentations).
>> The issues at hand are:
>> - the English pages do not appear
>> - the refs are randomly pointing to the tei-c page and the   
>> tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk
>> A second problem I discovered while toying with the pages is that  
>> you  cannot switch from one language to another for the same  
>> content. For  instance, from:
>> www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/ja/html/ref-addSpan.html
>> you come to the list of elements if you click on any language at  
>> the  bottom of the page instead of pointing to the translation of  
>> the page.
>> Is there a way to do something about this?
>> Best,
>> Laurent
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