Translation Server

The translation server is located at i18n.tiki.org (which is where you should go to use it.) The current page is to plan/discuss how to improve this feature




What

Make it easier for people to contribute translations to the main Tiki code base. This is similar to Pootle(external link) or Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta")(external link) as it will permit translations via the browser. But it will take this one step further because it permits to translate in context. Indeed, it's like the existing Interactive Translation feature, but making it easier to contribute back to the project. It could be distributed or centralized or both.

Distributed

Let people do their translations locally and make it easier to share them. Interactive translations would have to permit users to tag some translations as "to share" and others as "local".

Perhaps their local Tiki could generate diff files suitable for Web Commits. Related: Viral Tiki.

Centralized

Set-up a translation server with the web-based, interactive translation feature, and translation commits to main code base could be done regularly from i18.tiki.org to SVN. We would need to find a way to credit the translators in the SVN log. Users would need to register and get admin access (somehow) to be able to access all the strings. No long term information should be on this server (like coordination info between translators). This type of information will continue to be on tiki.org/i18n as it always has.

When

This project is now live with Tiki6. This project had been in discussion for a while, but was pushed back as all the energies were redirected to wiki-translation.com(external link). See http://i18n.tiki.org.

Who

  • Rodrigo
  • luci
  • MarcLaporte
  • olaf-michael (omstefanov)
  • you?

To do

  • add a form: "add a language to Tiki" on tiki.org/i18n
    • from then on, they can participate online
  • setup security (filters) and InterTiki and make these parts non-modifiable via the interface

  • Interactive Translation
  • If a translation is the same as in English (e.g. "Bimester" is "Bimester" in German, too), the translation is not saved. Reported by Gregor
  • URL too long error. Below steps to reproduce the problem. Reported by Jean-Luc.
    • on tiki-edit_languages.php select “unstranslated strings”
    • search for "repository" – 2 occurences found
    • translate the two strings
    • save them
    • clear the filter and you will get "URL too long" error

How to setup a translation server

  1. Install Tiki
  2. Setup Interactive Translation
  3. Setup InterTiki (optional)




alias



Contributors to this page: marclaporte44483 points  , rodrigo687 points  , luci4547 points  and omstefanov491 points  .
Page last modified on Monday 09 January 2012 03:50:50 CET by marclaporte44483 points .

Switch Language

Subscribe to Tiki Newsletters!

Delivered fresh to your email inbox!
Newsletter subscribe icon
Don't miss major announcements and other news!
Contribute to Tiki

Shoutbox

Torsten2431 points , 00:16 CEST, Fri 18 May 2012: oops Marc postponed to Friday 18th of May and then always at the third Friday
Torsten2431 points , 14:06 CEST, Sun 22 Apr. 2012: Next Webinar at Thursday, 17th of May 2012 (21:00 UTC)at http://tiki.org/live
Torsten2431 points , 11:43 CEST, Tue 10 Apr. 2012: Next Webinar at Thursday, 19th of April 2012 (21:00 UTC) at http://tiki.org/live
Jyhem2569 points , 13:07 CET, Fri 16 Mar. 2012: What happened to the BBB room ?
Torsten2431 points , 01:44 CET, Sat 25 Feb. 2012: Next Webinar at Thursday, 15th of March 2012 (21:00 UTC) at http://tiki.org/live