On 28/08/05, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
Again: OmegaT (and if possible also other tools) will be integrated in UW (we are already talking about the reference implementation) - we can have a tmx management at a certain stage - please base this stuff on TMX since this means almost all localisation tools on Lista-Standard can be used for localisation (also commercial tools like DéjàVu - http://www.altril.com - but of course I prefer Open Source tools) - so please have a look at this and send me sample files to try out what the actual OmegaT-version does and what needs to be changed (I suppose it is fairly easy to adapt the file parser).
I will have a look at the tools and resources you've mentionned if and when I get time.
As for example files, please see the links in my previous post (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-August/031182.html). Specifically, you can get any of the files by using URLs like http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/wikipedia/phase3/languages/... (replacing the "LanguageDe.php" bit for German with "LanguageFr.php" for French, etc, like the wiki domain prefixes, or just "Language.php" for English).
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whenever there is a new version to translate the sofware will then give you the inserted translation pair source/target as 100% match or if wording was slightly changed as partial match.
That sounds like it could be the right kind of thing - after all, I doubt MediaWiki is the first to face this conflict between i18n and customization (c11n?), so there *ought* to be tools out there that attempt to deal with it to some extent.
I know that this is not the ordinary wiki-tool and I know that it might seem strange to whoever is not a translator used to CAT-Tools, but it really is a great tool built for localisation/translation work.
Like I say, a wiki-like tool is tempting, but is probably rather like "reinventing the wheel" compared to using an existing specialist tool. [And we can always customise it to *look* like MediaWiki - we've got "MonoBook" skins for Bugzilla and even LiveJournal already, after all ;p]