[Foundation-l] (Important) Survey translators needed

Wed Jun 4 01:11:23 UTC 2008

2008/6/2 Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>:
>  * that you have already used existing lists of translated
>   messages, and you only need help with the extras,
>  * that you will never ask for translations of the names of months
>   or weekdays, since that is already part of free software for
>   localization,

The survey translation template does not currently include lists of
countries, lists of languages, and other standard data like this.
We'll try to get these translations from existing data sources. The
survey team at UNU Merit has designed large multilingual surveys on
open source development & use, and we have some translated texts that
we can use from there. Since we are talking about a survey
questionnaire, there isn't much "optional" stuff, except for a few
redundant columns we can probably kill.

>  * that you have an idea of what it means to provide useful
>   context to the phrases you want translated,

Every translator will receive the full, annotated questionnaire as a
context reference.

>  * that you will publish the list of translated phrases so the
>   next project that comes along can benefit from it.

Of course.

As for process, if you have specific suggestions, let me know.
Siebrand is looking at whether translatewiki.net could potentially be
used for this, either with technical modifications or without. But,
we're on a pretty tough timetable, so we'll see - as always, we'll
learn as we go along, and may get better at it next time.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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