[Python-ideas] Cross link documentation translations

[Julien Palard]

o/

While translating the Python Documentation in French [1][2], I 
discovered that we're not the only country doing it, there is also Japan 
[3][4], and Spain [5]. It's possible there's other but I didn't find 
them (and it's the problem).

But there's only a few way for users to find the translations (hearing 
about them, or explicitly searching for them on a search engine, which 
they won't do, obviously expecting a link from the english version if 
they exists).

So here is my idea: Why not linking translations from the main 
documentation?

I know that's not directly supported by Sphinx doc [6], but separate 
sphinx build, blindly (with hardcoded links) linking themselves, may 
work (like readthedoc is probably doing). The downside of those links is 
that we'll sometime link to untranslated parts, but those parts may be 
marked as untranslated [7] to encourage new translators to help.

Thoughts?

[1] http://www.afpy.org/doc/python/3.5/
[2] https://github.com/afpy/python_doc_fr
[3] http://docs.python.jp/3/
[4] https://github.com/python-doc-ja/python-doc-ja
[5] http://docs.python.org.ar/tutorial/3/index.html
[6] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/2252
[7] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1246

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Julien Palard