Multilingual Documentation Working Group

This working group’s mission is to support multilingual documentation in R.

Projects

1. Add support in R for multilingual documentation (in progress):
   1. ISC Grant
   2. Package
      1. Check the issues repo if you are interested in contributing
2. Create tooling for translating documentation:
   1. Extract and format documentation from another package.
   2. Create translation module from translated documentation.
   3. Keep translations up-to-date.
   4. Transform between formats accepted by existing translation services.
3. Create teaching materials for these tools.
   1. Tutorials.
   2. Blog articles.
   3. Organise and guide community efforts for documentation translation.

Who are we

• Paola Corrales
• Elio Campitelli: WG Lead
• Gergely Daroczi
• Michael Chirico
• Yani Bellini Saibene: Create teaching materials for these tools. Integrate this solution to the one used and developed by rOpenSci and R-Ladies.
• Christophe Regouby

To contribute to this working group, please open a PR to add you name on the list.

Resources

• This repository for meeting notes, materials and issues

• Slack channel for informal and quick communication: #wg-multilingual-r-documentation in the R Consortium Slack

• Mailing list for formal announcements