Re: [translate-pootle] Re: Web-based translation for GNOME

[David Fraser <davidf sjsoft com>]

Aiet Kolkhi wrote:

> > It's just a glossary development tool.  FWIW, it's quite similar to 
> > my webtionary, however, webtionary doesn't support more than a single
> > comment per suggested translation (and there are plans to change
> > that), and KiPOT doesn't support per-project decisions (since both KDE
> > and Gnome Serbian translation teams use same database for us) or
> > voting.
> >  
> The whole idea would indeed be very nice. The most importnat part 
> would be online glossary management, enabling all the registered (and, 
> optionally, verified by l10n team lead) users to comment on each term, 
> add their own translation and approve/vote other translations.
>
> I have a module similat to this on my l10n sit at 
> http://gakartuleba.sapikhvno.org/glossary_en.php  but it is also 
> lacking voting features and the UI is somewhat unfriendly.

Nice to see this, there are a few tools like this around and it will be 
nice to see where we end up, I didn't know about yours.

> Where can I find Webtionary?
>
> Online editing of PO files would of course be very nice, but I also 
> think that commiting should be committed by the coordinator/lead.

Definitely.

> The most important feature online PO translator should have is TM. As 
> soon as the glossary work is over, the glossary should automatically 
> be fed to a TM which will be used on PO translations. Also, as soon as 
> a PO file is complete, it should also be fed to the TM.
>
> Something like that would be of great help to all my l10n projects.

I've done some stuff on using a text indexer to index PO files, the idea 
being that fast searching is roughly equivalent to TM

David