Hello everyone!

I am Pratik Lahoti (User:BPositive) from Pune, India. I am willing to participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. I am interested in the project titled - "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki contenthttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014#Tools_for_mass_migration_of_legacy_translated_wiki_content ".

My mentors for this project would be Niklas Laxströmhttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom and Federico Leva https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis.

With their help, I have drafted the first version of my proposal page. You can find it here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools

Brief overview of the project:

The MediaWiki Translate extensionhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate makes the task of translation easier by providing a user-friendly interface that consists of text strings splitted into translation units. Non-translatable content like images are excluded from the process of translation. Though that makes the job easy with a rich editor supporting various languages, a lot of effort is required to prepare the page for translation, i.e, the page under question first needs to be converted into a format that would be recognized by the Translate extension. The process of preparing the page for translation needs to take into consideration various markupshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#markup which becomes a tedious task when done manually. Plus, wikis have a lot of legacy content that still needs to be made translatable.

Thus, with this motivation, the project aims to facilitate this conversion and thereby save manual time and effort. The tool developed would thus make the page translatable, and once that is done, it would import the translations (which were present before the page was made translatable) into the Translate extension. Thus, the entire process of importing translations which involved a significant amount of manual task gets automated by this project.

The proposal page mentions the Project Outline and the approach/solution towards the problem statement. I am done with most of the sections and left with the Project Schedule (which I will finish off when everything is finalized).

Please have a look at the proposal and give your valuable feedback/suggestions. While I have no problems in replying to the suggestions put forth over here, I would appreciate if you can do the same on the discussion pagehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Translate/Mass_migration_tools of the proposal, so that all the feedback is at one single place.

Looking forward to the inputs from the community.