Hello all,
The Translate Toolkit folks have set up a web portal where you can distribute the translation of a set of strings (like the interface for a piece of software). What do people think about using this to help translate Mediawiki ?
http://translate.sourceforge.net/pootle-release-2004-12-16.html
The Special:Allmessages pages in the various wikimedia projects already contains many relevant UI translations that are missing from the mediawiki language files. These pages would be a good place to start if somebody has CVS commit rights and is willing, or has their own mediawiki site and is looking for translations. More translations can sometimes be found on meta, e.g.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_languageXX.php_update http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Locales_for_the_Wikimedia_projects
The pootle software is probably good (BTW, are you related to sjsoft.com?), but the current bottleneck seems to be in reviewing and committing existing UI translations.
-- Zigger
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:37:27 -0500, Sj wrote:
... The Translate Toolkit folks have set up a web portal where you can distribute the translation of a set of strings (like the interface for a piece of software). What do people think about using this to help translate Mediawiki ?
http://translate.sourceforge.net/pootle-release-2004-12-16.html ...
I'm not related. :-) Here's the source code, if people want to run their own setup on a WM server..: it's a little out of date, though.
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/pootle/
I was thinking that pootle would be a nice system to avoid creating new Wikis *just* so that people could translate the interface... since then they're also an extra spam target, etc.
+sj+
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:05:35 +1100, Zigger zigger@gmail.com wrote:
The Special:Allmessages pages in the various wikimedia projects already contains many relevant UI translations that are missing from the mediawiki language files. These pages would be a good place to start if somebody has CVS commit rights and is willing, or has their own mediawiki site and is looking for translations. More translations can sometimes be found on meta, e.g.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_languageXX.php_update http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Locales_for_the_Wikimedia_projects
The pootle software is probably good (BTW, are you related to sjsoft.com?), but the current bottleneck seems to be in reviewing and committing existing UI translations.
-- Zigger
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:37:27 -0500, Sj wrote:
... The Translate Toolkit folks have set up a web portal where you can distribute the translation of a set of strings (like the interface for a piece of software). What do people think about using this to help translate Mediawiki ?
http://translate.sourceforge.net/pootle-release-2004-12-16.html ...
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