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"09.20 Synchronizing translations in a Wiki with TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
Marc Laporte, AvanTech.net, Canada
Classic translation workflow systems are based on several assumptions.
For example, they assume the presence of a master language and that the source document be "final" before translation is started. But what to do for a wiki, which has no master language and, by the wiki's nature, when a document is never "final"? The presentation will address 7 assumptions (including the two mentioned above) of the traditional translation workflows and how these are challenged in the Web & Wiki world. Finally, we will describe a working solution to these issues, implemented in TikiWiki, a full-featured, open source, multilingual Web Content Management System (CMS). This solution is currently used by the Firefox support site at support.mozilla.com. More information on Wiki-Translation.com"

27 November 2008
http://www.aslib.co.uk/conferences/programme.html

1-TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
2-Synchronizing translations in a Wiki

1- A full-featured, open source, multilingual Web Content Management System

2- The challenges and a working solution, used by the Firefox support site

by Marc Laporte, at ASLIB 2008, London

• MarcLaporte.com
• Collaboration and Wikis
• Translating the Wiki Way
• Mozilla (Firefox) Support
• Staging and approval
• Free source software & business model
• TikiWiki CMS/Groupware

• Over a decade of Web experience
• Expert on wikis, collaboration and groupware
• Project administrator of TikiWiki CMS/Groupware
• Longstanding interest and involvement in multilingual wikis

What are the most important volunteer mass collaboration projects in the history of humankind?

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• Wikipedia
• Documentation
• Collaboration -> flexible, simple freeform project management
• Corporate Intranet or extranet
• Great for unstructured content, can be structured with categories and tags
• Effective document workflow

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http://wikis-in-plain-english.notlong.com/

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day.
Teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.

Add that knowledge to a wiki
And countless people will be able to learn on their own

And share their knowledge
And many will feed their families

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• Powerful revision control: Every single change is tracked. Who/what/when + ability to show the difference

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• Use a standard web-browser
• Shared, editable
• Wiki syntax for simple links and formatting
• Email notification of changes (opt-in)

• Master language
• Edit freeze
• Enforceable timely translation
• Controlled language pairs
• Strong coordination
• Trained translators
• Separation of Authoring and Translation

Often not applicable in a collaborative environment

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• What about when… ?
  • …minor changes are frequent?
  • …translation can’t be expected to be complete everywhere?
  • …there is no master language?
• How do you track and propagate changes across languages? (without pulling your hair out 😊

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http://clwe-demo.notlong.com

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• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau
  • École de technologie supérieure
• Alain Désilets
  • Conseil de recherches national du Canada
• Sébastien Paquet
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
• Nelson Ko
  • TikiWiki CMS/Groupware / Carleton Univ. / Citadel Rock
• Marc Laporte
  • TikiWiki CMS/Groupware / Avantech.net
• Xavier De Pedro
  • University of Barcelona
• You?

• Needs accurate & precise documentation for Firefox
• Contributed by volunteers
• Minimum of 8 languages
• For urgent translations changes, messages can be tagged accordingly
• Staging & approval feature
• Starting with Firefox 3, application documentation is online
• Mozilla is both a user and a contributor/participant/partner.

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http://marclaporte.com/staging_approval/staging_launch.htm

• Shared resource
• Collaborative development
  • Contributor
  • User
• Popular examples
  • Linux
  • Firefox
  • Open Office

Free software is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed with little or no restriction.

• Free beer?
• Free speech?
• Free kitten?

• What is the business model?
• How are you protected against vendor lock-in?

• No license fee to use the software.
• You can choose to pay for services
  • Installation, support, training, custom development and hosting.
  • But not licenses.

http://info.tikiwiki.org/Consultants

• Tightly Integrated Knowledge Infrastructure
• Combination CMS + wiki + groupware
• Stable & established application
• Very active community
• Free source software (LGPL)
• Consultants if you need paid support
• Used on tens of thousands of sites
• 6 years, hundreds of people.
• A new code commit every two hours

• Translated into 30+ languages
• 960 pages of documentation
• Unlimited number of users
• Unlimited number of groups
• Users can be in any number of groups
• Runs on standard php/mysql making web hosting easy and inexpensive

• Hundreds of built-in features
• Wiki
• Blogs & articles
• File gallery
  • Check-in/out, categories, plugin to filter
• Trackers
  • Custom database, forms and reports
• Discussion forums
• Polls
• Etc.

• Online community / association / club / special interest group / NGO (A)
• Personal site / family site (A)
• Simple portal / news site (A)
• Advanced portal / news site (A)
• Corporate web site (A)
• Groupware Wiki / Corporate Wiki / Corporate Intranet / Team project (A)
• Public Wiki (A)
• Group knowledge base / Knowledge Management (KM) / institutional memory (A)
• Product or software documentation and support (A)
• Customer extranet (B)

Personal knowledge base / manage my life (B)
Wiki-based Project Management (PM) (B)
Glossary / Dictionary / Encyclopedia (B)
Writing a book (B)
Framework / Activity Workflow / Specialized web Application (B)
Document Workflow (B)
Bug or Issue tracker (B)
Collaborative research (B)
Voice-enabled wiki and mobile applications (B)
Geo CMS (B)
Blog (one author) (C)
Blog (several authors) (C)
Event Management, Conference Management & planning (C)

Calendar of events (C)
Document Management System (DMS) (C)
SourceForge/Gforge type site (C)
Translation Management System (TMS) (D)
Traditional Project Management (PM) with Gantt charts, etc (E)
E-learning / Learning Management System (LMS) / classroom / course management system (CMS) (D)
Customer/Contact/Constituent relationship management (CRM) (D)
Bibliography (D)
E-democracy (D)
Social networking / Job board / Dating site / hospitality exchange / Car Pooling (E)
E-commerce / Shopping cart (E)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / Accounting (E)

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• Multilingual form & report generator
• Screencast:
  • http://twbasics.keycontent.org/movies/trackers.htm

The TikiWiki community will be happy to work with any organization to help use:

• The same principles as Wikipedia
• The same technology as Firefox
• Free source software

• …I want you to remember about this talk in 6 months
  • There is a wiki-translation.com community
  • Wiki energy will affect many sectors, including the World of translation
  • Wiki & open source technology is available at a good Total cost of ownership (TCO)

Wiki-translation.com
TikiWiki.org
Jiamcatt.ourwiki.net (try it out!)
Support.mozilla.com
marclaporte.com
AvanTech.net

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