Move language selection to a dedicated page?

[pradyunsg]

I have been browsing various documentation sites, as part of exploration for #1, and I quite like how React has handled their presentation for the documentation translations: https://reactjs.org/languages

By having a separate page, the page can now contain:

• Clear indicators for the "state" / "completeness" of the translation efforts, like "In Progress" and "Needs Contributors".
• Clear links to contribute to each of the language-specific translation efforts.
• Callout to a documentation page, for folks interested in contributing additional languages.
• A lot more space to present translations across many languages. :)

I think all of these are basically non-feasible for a dropdown-based language selector like we have today on docs.python.org.

[pradyunsg]

x-ref #4, since this would obsolete that.

[AA-Turner]

A vote in favour of the language page.

I think there should be some quick link to the language chooser visible on every page though, perhaps with the globe symbol or suchlike.

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[pradyunsg]

I think there should be some quick link to the language chooser visible on every page though, perhaps with the globe symbol or suchlike.

Agreed. :)

[hugovk]

Would a dedicated language page mean we lose the ability to jump from one translated page to another?

For example, if I'm on https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html I can select Spanish from the dropdown and am taken to https://docs.python.org/es/3/library/exceptions.html

There's great utility in this. If you end up on an English page via Google search or other article page, you can hop to your own language.

Similarly, if a translated page is not up-to-date you can hop back to the source English page.

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... and I quite like how React has handled their presentation for the documentation translations: https://reactjs.org/languages

This site has been archived. The new one is https://react.dev/ and it does have translations (https://translations.react.dev/, for example: https://es.react.dev/), but curiously I don't see a languages page or any other links from the English site.