Siebrand Mazeland schrieb:
Any input/output format requires 'ffs' support
in Translate, whichever
format would be chosen as wanted, if not already supported (see
extensions/Translate/ffs/). At the moment there is support for Wiki
(MessagesXx.php), WikiExtension (MediaWiki extension i18n style), gettext,
Java .properties style (key=message), PHP variables ($key="message"), and
XLIFF (untested). One of these supports multiple languages in one file
(WikiExtension).
I hade a look, it seems realtively straight forward to me
I think it is unavoidable to develop a new ffs - there
is little to no
documentation on ffs development, but I hope the current code can serve as
example. We have to keep in mind that in theory messages can contain both
semi-colons and tabs, so care has to be taken chosing a separator when
designing a xSV format.
I would suggest to use TSV as supported by MySQLs LOAD INFILE command. That
would make importing very easy.
If there would be a Subversion or similar repo
available to store the output
from Betawiki, I could commit the changes almost on a daily basis back into
toolserver (or even easier, add it somewhere in
svn.wikimedia.org), from
where it could be processed further.
My idea was to dump TSV files to a web-readable directory, and have a cron-job
on the toolserver that loads that file and imports it into MySQL using LOAD INFILE.
CC-ing Niklas as he knows a tiny bit more about
Translate development than I
do.
Daniel, would you happen to be at FOSDEM this weekend? Niklas will be there,
as will I, so that would be a great opportunity to close this deal.
Yes, I'll be there.
Looking forward to seeing you all :)
-- daniel