I have wondered before whether a specific, site-neutral, system for collabourating on translations would be useful - not only for new languages, but to keep existing translations up to date when the English "master" messages are changed, or new features are added.
Hi Rowan, I really thought about trying something like this with a wiki and of course with UW (at a certain stage).
I have some ideas on how it could work, but within a normal wiki it means loads of templates ...
The easiest thing is to use a CAT-Tool to translate the UI and then put the translation memory (tmx) at disposal - so anyone who does an update will have 100% matches from the old UI and the rest needs to be translated. This way the translator goes also over the correction of eventual misspellings or changes in terminology are possible in order to have an even better product.
Of course this can also be done with .po files, but I would very much prefer to work directly on the source files (maybe since I am used to it and I don't feel familiar with .po). As for CAT-Tools all is about having the right parser for the CAT-Tool. I suppose your php-files are similar to the ones I already translated and so, for example, the ordinary html parser of OmegaT (http://www.omegat.org) should work.
This means I just need the php file and we will know if it works.
This is the easiest way for us translators to work with that.
Can you pass me the php file of the actual version? + for example EN+DE or EN+IT from an older localised version? This way I can also try to create an alignment file to have a basis to work on.
I would very much like to see OmegaT used for these things as we are planning a reference implementation that connects it to UW and there we have the possibility to store the TM (translation memory) with the appropriate category. This would then mean; OmegaT users can retrieve the needed information for the UI localisation from Ultimate Wiktionary.
Ciao, Sabine
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