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

[Ralf Gommers]

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.

Cheers,
Ralf