[Labs-l] Localizing Citation Hunt - best practices for translating tools?

Mon Jan 25 20:21:02 UTC 2016

First, kudos for Citation Hunt.

I know that the PHP-based Intuition 
<https://github.com/Krinkle/intuition> is among the most popular 
localisation frameworks on Tool Labs.
Here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116190> you can read about a 
planned Python port.

Il 25/01/2016 21:00, Guilherme Gonçalves ha scritto:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I develop a tool called Citation Hunt 
> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/> for browsing through 
> snippets of Wikipedia articles lacking citations in a quick and fun 
> way. I actually started it nearly a year ago, but it has lately gained 
> some traction after being used in the #1Lib1Ref 
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref> 
> campaign. It was quite a surprise to learn I'm not the only user of my 
> tool, and I've had a lot of fun lately hearing and addressing feedback 
> from various people :)
>
> It seems like the obvious next step is to get the tool translated to 
> other languages than English. I have an experimental version 
> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/fr> indexing the French 
> Wikipedia, and hope to implement at least another language in the next 
> few weeks, and of course have their whole interfaces translated into 
> the corresponding languages.
>
> Which brings me to my question: what are the best practices for making 
> a tool available for localization, especially for non-technical 
> translators? I found https://translatewiki.net/ through another tool, 
> and, while it looks great, the low number of projects listed on that 
> page led me to wonder whether I was missing another better-known solution.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> -- 
> Guilherme P. Gonçalves
>
>
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