Hello,
The question of translating this site in other languages is one we are currently playing with, so yes, we are indeed interested! Thank you very much for raising this possibility.
a caveat: this site is huge. We planned it smaller, but we let the pen free and ended up with something around 150 pages long document when glued end to end. Translating it is quite a huge job. What we did here, for the english translation, was to hire a professional translator, and then proof read his text in order to check for the scientific specificities that he were not aware of.
Once the text is translated, we need:
- to adapt the web site structure for the new version;
- to construct the html pages; unfortunately, due to the complexity of the layout, this has to be done for every language.
But we are convinced that translating this site would be great, and we are actively looking for ways of doing it. I am not raising these points to deter you, but to warn you that a minimum of organization is needed.
If you have the budget, hiring a translator is the quickest solution. Another solution could be to have a collaboration with the english department of your universities, if you could interest them. Translating the site could be done by students as part of their cursus, and you would only need to proof read the result (this is already quite a work). And asking a small budget to your university for the construction of the web pages would also help; to build the site we also hired a company, and we will ask them what it would cost to add other languages.
We have a word file, with the content of the site, and indeed should a translation be done, it should be from this file, and not from the web!
Do you have connections within the English department of your University? (that is for those like me who do not have a perfect control over the english language -- no smug remark from you Vegard...) I will ask Julien to put some precise detail of the exact length of the total text (a word count, or a character count).
Thank you,
Fred
EDITED : the page count of 150 includes pictures, without pictures the page count is around 70, see the post of Julien Bobroff above.