A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are
being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate
extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or
Mediawiki.org:
Siebrand:
have a look at
kde.userbase.org for a real-life
example of a page translation
implementation in a MediaWiki wiki[1]. A description of the features and
process is available at translatewiki.net[2].
[1]
http://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALanguageStats&code=nl
[2]
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Page_translation_feature
what's keeping it [from being used] currently lies
outside translatewiki.net's staff span
of control (community voice and WMF resources).
For anyone who currently works on direct translations (of help
messages, primary sources, &c), check out the kde example above.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
John, if you don't mind, can we move this
thread to foundation-l?
sure.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:16 AM, John Vandenberg
<jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is also interest in the English Wikisource
community.
The babel extension doesnt break anything, so I think en.ws would be
happy to try it.
Yes. That would be grand.
I have started a formal vote in the existing discussion
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Babe…
English
Wikisource is starting to focus on this for 2011, and knows it
needs better software.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Translation
We are considering developing this functionality on top of the
proofread page extension that we use.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProofreadPage
That's great. Wikisource needs its own wiki newspaper to cover the
cool things happening there :)
we used to have a nice newsletter.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News/Archives
and the multilingual
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News
Main namespace pages on all language Wikisources,
rather than being
separate language projects, would usually be exact translations of one
another... so a future sort of Translate extension might be
implemented on all of them.
Yea, the primary gap is the ability to translate between subdomains,
whereas extension:translate currently only works on a single project.
This gap might be reduced by enabling scary page transclusion between
wikisource projects for only the 'Page' namespace...
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