by Alec Muffett
…but something very odd has turned up in my referrer logs – see to the right of image:
Maybe somebody ran “wget” over Wayne’s blog, and it went berserk traversing over Wayne’s Google Translate / multiple language support?
But who would do such a thing? And why?
I’ve noticed a number of complete site sucking events on my web server at home over the last few weeks. This included a few times where everything in my gallery was accessed.
Yeah – perfectly normal I’m afraid – the email address harvesters that spammers run are pretty dumb. 🙁
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Hi Cat Lovin’ Dude,
Neither do I, but I’m happy to put it down to the recent changes to the way I’ve implemented the translation stuff on the site.
There are two options for translation on the site now, on the fly dynamic translation, via Google translate (which I coded up in JavaScript myself, and which I’ll probably replace with the Google widget version), and nice new, shiny, static, pre-translated, blog entries.
I changed it because I wasn’t satisfied with the Google translate version for two reasons:
1) because it doesn’t produce static pages nothing spiders it (so no good for Yandex, or any of the other non-English speaking dominant search engines / directories)
2) It doesn’t produce an RSS feed (because no entries of course, I had tried bodging this with Yahoo pipes, but I wasn’t happy with that either)
I’m guessing that search engines, spiders, blog directories and the ilk, rationalise these translated version of my blog as separate blogs, because the content appears to be so different from each other to them.
I set up the templates in Roller Weblogger to load language resource files which load translated values across the whole of the Roller constructed page, and here’s the link to how I got internationalization working on the site:
http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/en_GB/entry/i12n_g11n_l10n_roller_weblogger
Ciao,
Wayne
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