So, five chapters of Fine Structure have now been translated into Hebrew
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This would be very surprising behaviour, and not terribly helpful to someone expecting to read the whole story in a single language
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I know for a fact that it's not acceptable to, due to incomplete translation work, serve one web page in a mixture of languages
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I'm cautiously of the opinion that the same applies to a whole site. Just translating e.g. the front page is unhelpful
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We know that GeoCities-style "Under Construction" banners are bad; a translated front page with everything else in English is basically that
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Anything which requires the user to muck about with their language settings just for you is also probably to be avoided
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In French my site would be one or two points of light in an ocean of English or, arguably better, 404s
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This is a much more highly-developed problem over at the SCP Foundation http://www.scp-wiki.net/
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There is the English SCP wiki. And e.g. the Russian translations of the SCP wiki. But there are also original Russian SCP wiki entries
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The raw markup of SCP-3125 is encrypted, which means translating it is hilariously unfunny and involves Node.jshttps://github.com/qntm/scp-3125
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But that's a different problem, because the e.g. Korean SCP wiki is a separately maintained site which I can leave in its users' hands
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And in fact maintenance/crosslinking of the English SCP wiki is also not really in my hands. I mainly just pootle around their IRC channel
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So anyway, my problem is different from the other problems I've mentioned, and the solution is unfortunately WORK
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I'm thinking probably a thin border at the top of the page where you can switch among multiple translations, if they exist
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I use "was" because http://qntm.org was built in the past. It is not currently under active development. That's a clue
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Let's see, reinstall Apache, MySQL and PHP or just edit production using WinSCP. Decisions, decisions
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This book was the basis for my first development job. Good timeshttp://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000417.do …
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My first development job was PHP and MySQL so they will always hold a place in my heart, in an Iron Man shrapnel sort of way
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