Bitcoin wiki bug - leads to blank pages from Google

blockgenesis

sr. member

Activity: 285

Merit: 250

Bitcoin.org maintainer

Quote from: davidpbrown on June 04, 2013, 01:17:30 PM

I was wondering yesterday how much effort was being put to translation.

For my own site, I put a message to those preferring languages I didn't have a translation for, appealing for help and that worked well. Even not speaking the language, simple cross referencing two or more submissions with Google translate, it becomes easy to build up a comprehensive set of translations. So, don't just bounce to English, use those interested and have them contribute.

Sounds like a very good idea to me (as long as the page also links to the english page for those who are not interested to contribute).

davidpbrown

sr. member

Activity: 531

Merit: 260

Vires in Numeris

I was wondering yesterday how much effort was being put to translation.

For my own site, I put a message to those preferring languages I didn't have a translation for, appealing for help and that worked well. Even not speaking the language, simple cross referencing two or more submissions with Google translate, it becomes easy to build up a comprehensive set of translations. So, don't just bounce to English, use those interested and have them contribute.

blockgenesis

sr. member

Activity: 285

Merit: 250

Bitcoin.org maintainer

If your web browser language is set to any other language then english and that you click on any wiki page in Google search results, you end on a blank page. I suspect that this might happen quite often. This is due to how urls are referenced by Google and how the bitcoin wiki handles url translations.

For instance if you get this url from Google :
https://bitcoin.it/wiki/Software

The Bitcoin wiki will automatically convert it to :
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Software or https://fr.bitcoin.it/wiki/Software based on your browser language.

In the later case, the page doesn't exist, therefore it is a bug.

The bitcoin wiki could be modified to 301 permanently redirect to english, or to temporarily redirect (302) to the right translated page and fallback to english when the page doesn't exist. Is there someone with sufficient access to allow such a fix?

Topic: Bitcoin wiki bug - leads to blank pages from Google (Read 896 times)