On languages without a team, direct translators to the info page on how to create a team

[David Planella]

Since we changed the translations policy of the Ubuntu project to Restricted, we've had several requests to create new Ubuntu translation teams.

These requests go mostly through either personal e-mail or through an e-mail to all members of the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team.

That's probably due to the fact that going to the https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+lang/$LANGCODE page for a language without a team, translators are presented with the following text, including a link to the ubuntu-translations-coordinators page in LP:

"There is no team to manage Ubuntu translations to $LANGUAGE. To set one up, please get in touch with Ubuntu Translations Coordinators."

When we receive a personal e-mail, we forward it to the list and direct the translators to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam and to file a request at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+addquestion

It would be much easier to have the Launchpad page have a link to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+addquestion instead of to ubuntu-translations-coordinators, and if it's not too much clutter, even having a link to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam, which would save us having to point them out to that page every time.

Here's a proposal for an alternative text (using wiki syntax for the sake of simplicity):

"There is no team to manage Ubuntu translations to $LANGUAGE. To set one up, please [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam | follow the instructions]] and [[https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+addquestion | file a support request]].

If you've got any questions, please get in touch with the [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators | Ubuntu Translations Coordinators]]"

[David Planella (dpm)]

Here's an example of the text currently shown for a teamless language (see the top of the page):

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+lang/an

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

I don't have a problem with special-casing Ubuntu text, though that should be clearly separated out (well, ideally, we'd provide a "no_team_html" on translation group that you could set, and display that instead). However, as a mean-time solution, have you considered changing the Ubuntu Translations Coordinators team description to include the above paragraph?