[SciPy-Dev] I want to do some translation about the SciPy Reference Guide

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, 江大伟 <zw4131 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys
> > I am a Chinese postgraduate student in the Australian National
> University.
> > And I am using SciPy to develop some machine learning algorithms. But I
> > found I could not use classes and functions smoothly, because I often
> > encountered many technical and mathematical words which I could
> understand
> > in Chinese but couldn’t in English. So I was often interrupted when I was
> > thinking, which was quite annoying.
> > So I guess it is absolutely a major stumbling block for other Chinese
> > students to use SciPy. You can’t expect them to learn English well as
> well
> > as mathematics.
> > So I want to translate the SciPy Reference Guide into Chinese.
> > Is it ok? Can you give me some advice or some help?
>
> It would be great to have more accessible documentation for Chinese
> speakers. I would suggest a translation of the first part of the Scipy
> Reference Guide, the tutorial
> (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/index.html). The
> rest of the Reference Guide is autogenerated from docstrings, which I
> don't think is feasible to translate for several reasons (no toolchain
> support, not maintainable, too much work). We could distribute the
> tutorial separately from the rest of the reference guide, this is done
> for Numpy too.
>
> You can find the sources for the tutorial under doc/source/tutorial/.
> If you think this is the right way to go, it should be easy to jump
> in.
>
>
Is the documentation copyrighted? If not, should it be?

Chuck
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