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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.02.2015 um 10:54 schrieb
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<pre wrap=""><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">The German forum, that is linked in the wiki is the one, that I am member of. Unfortunately, the company, that provides it, doesn't really care, we have been asking, if they could name someone to look after the forum, because there are many bots login in and just copy and past threads ... Some members have send e-mails to the provider. That didn't help. I even rang them. They were very short on the phone, saying they will have a look over it, which they didn?t.
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Which one is that? Its not a Scribus owned forum in that case. We don?t have published phone numbers. Don?t use that experience as related to Scribus.
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It's <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scribus-forum.de/">http://www.scribus-forum.de/</a><br>
To act within German law you have to give an "Impressum" with your
adress, e-mail and phone-number. If you don't do so, you can easily
be getting in truble.<br>
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The forum was small with only few aktiv but regular members. But as
I explained before, the provider didn't really look after it.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hallo Anke,
Yes, much of the German Wiki translation is outdated. It's the same with other language versions, including English. Maybe we should do a major cleanup and tag all outdated docs as such or update them. However, the Wiki is mostly a forum for user contributions. There is no "Wiki Team" as anyone can contribute, but you need to have an account. Once you are registered, feel free to update any document you wish to.
Regarding questions, there is this mailing list where people can also ask questions in German and many other languages.
You also mentioned the online manual in the Wiki. Guess what? It's outdated as well. The original idea was to add the online docs to the wiki and create automated updates from svn. Somehow this never happened for reasons unknown. Maybe we should remove the stuff as well.
As for the tutorial: There is a much better one in Scribus itself AND it has been translated to German. Moreover, I'm currently working with an external contributor on a complete German translation of the Online Manual, which includes many improvements that will also be added to the English original.
Beste Gr??e
Christoph
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So let's sum up: <br>
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<li>There is wiki in English which is outdated</li>
<li>there is a German wiki which is even more outdated</li>
<li>there is a support-forum which is in English language, but
some people know German or are germans</li>
<li>there is a mailing list, which is in English language, but if
you don't know English you have the oppertunity to write German,
too.</li>
<li>I had a look in my scribus 1.4.2 (Ubuntu 14.04) there is a
German tutorial, but it is the one I find on the wiki form 2006
which explains the use of scribus 1.3.3</li>
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So there are possibilities around, if you know where to find them,
but if you don't know English and you are not familiar with the
internet, you will never find out about it.<br>
Imagine, you are looking for some support for a certain software and
you only find an italian supportforum. Would you bother trying to
read, though you don't know any italian?<br>
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I believe, there would be more interest and a larger community, if
there was a bigger variety of pages in different languages. You can
allays bild a network like a linklist for every external page, forum
or blog, that supports scribus. You can allays make a rule like
every page needs to list all other pages, if it wants to be part of
the network for example.<br>
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When I see that wiki, it puts me off, because there is so much to be
done, and it looks like, I would have to tidy it up all alone. And
it is work for a Ione warrior, guess I'm not the only one that
thinks that way, otherwise, the translations and wikis of the other
languages would be better maintained.<br>
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I do have a little course, that I wrote for scribus and that I
publish over my buisnesshomepage. The people, that buy that course
are most of the time elderly people, that use scribus for there
hobby, or they want to write a little "Vereinszeitung" or
"Gemeindebrief". Most of them don't speak any English, but they have
the time and interest to learn scribus and they know, they can
allays ask. But they would never sign into a mailing list or
register to a forum that is not written in their native language.<br>
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Anke<br>
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