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[Simeun Furtula]

It looks like Middleman fulfills all requested technical requirements 
except the feature that would allow translation teams to be informed 
about obsolete content. It would be silly to expect such a feature from 
a software that is primarily a *static site generator*. Middleman itself 
*is* a static site generator. It uses markdown documents for storing 
content, which makes translation work a lot easier than it is now. Also, 
it supports localization out of the box, which makes it a very good choice.

As git is going to be used for storing content, I assume it wouldn't be 
hard to build/setup separate system which will take care of 
translations, and make life easier for content translators. Anyway, main 
features of such tool should be:
     - to allow easy translation of content (plain simple editing of 
markdown documents)
     - to allow easy translation of language files (Middleman uses YAML, 
which doesn't require much technical knowledge to edit)
     - to notify translators of changes in content of "main" language 
(English?)

I don't know if any of such tools exists, although I believe there is a 
plenty of them. If someone knows of a such software packet, please let 
me know.

+1 for Middleman blogging support

Best regards,
Simeun

On 1/7/2014 9:21 PM, Frithjof wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Rey Dhuny <rey at spcshp.com> wrote:
>> Hopefully we can come up with a system for i18n better than WML. Looks like
>> we have a couple guys with experience in the group.
>>
>> Middleman does localisation out the box:
>> http://middlemanapp.com/advanced/localization/
>>
> I think the real problem here is not 'having a backend that can handle
> multiple languages',
> but 'how can one store and edit translations in such a way, that
>
> * translation teams are informed about obsoleted parts of their pages, and
> * people with little knowledge about web development can edit the translations.
>
> --Frithjof
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