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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

As you might notice the LAMS Documentation Wiki, which is the teachers and users documentation for LAMS has always being in English.

Also while using LAMS, you will see that there are buttons that have a ? (question mark) in them that when pressed a new window pops-up pointing to a specific LAMS Documentation page in this Wiki that explains how the LAMS feature/tool you are in works.

But the problem is that for non-English teachers/users, it doesn't quite help to have this documentation in English. So following lots of people request, we have now configure this Wiki (and LAMS) to jump to a specific are where documentation in the same language as the LAMS user uses will be displayed.

For this, we have created new Wiki Spaces that have the same information as the main English Wiki but this pages can be translated to each of the languages used in LAMS.

So for instance, users utilizing LAMS in Spanish whenever they request help, they will be redirected to the LAMS Documentation Wiki in Spanish.

As you can see in the Spanish Wiki (which is not fully translated yet) we have "copied" the English Wiki that will be translated into Spanish overtime.

The main advantage of doing this (additionally to the users get help on their own language) is that since each language can have their independent Wiki space, the editors for each language can decide the best way to structure their help content, provide additional examples, etc.

So far, we have two new spaces for Spanish and Japanese. However, if you are interested to help us translate the help to your own language, we will create a new space for it and give you the basic English "content" structure so you have a head start.

Additionally, we have put instructions on how to use the Wiki for translations that you might find helpful.

Also since this is a wiki, multiple persons can collaboratively work on the same pages without deleting each others' contribution but building on top of each other instead.

You don't need special skills to edit this pages as our Wiki has a very nice and intuitive interface.

So let us know if you want to start the pages in your own language and we'll help you with all that.

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione