Would more people come to AsktheEU if it was translated into more European languages?

[garethrees]

Q: Would more people come to AsktheEU if it was translated into more European languages?

[Explain how you will measure this]

Traffic from countries with translations

[What do we need to do to be able to take the measurements?]

• [x] Ask AccessInfo if they have thought about this, and whether we could help
• [ ] Add existing Italian translation to AskTheEU
• [ ] Tweak Italian wording to EU-specific wording
• [ ] Measure traffic from Italy

[garethrees]

Yes, they'd like to translate into more languages - Italian and Polish being top ones. Could we help them get volunteers to translate site? Or use Italian that's already on Transifex?

[garethrees]

What languages can/do EU authorities answer in? All European languages

[garethrees]

We should put together a proposal to Adessium Foundation about supporting pan-EU FOI approach, including using AskTheEU to increase traffic to country sites + looking at how we fill in EU gaps: a WDTK for each country in the long term. For instance Open State Foundation could take on WhatDoTheyKnow.nl

– @markcridge

[garethrees]

This is marked as "Done" in the spreadsheet, but I think that's just referring to the first action ("Ask AccessInfo if they have thought about this, and whether we could help")

[garethrees]

Some conversation with Claudio about the Italian translations. Might be a bit of work to tweak for AskTheEU.

[Gemmamysoc]

Could we use Localization Lab to translate AsktheEU into Polish? http://www.localizationlab.org/

[garethrees]

Nice! We should answer #74 before getting too much in to this.

[Gemmamysoc]

Could be worth posting for translators on the Localization Lab Discussion Forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/otfl10n

[garethrees]

https://github.com/mysociety/asktheeu-theme/issues/61