Re: GNOME.org update

[Vinicius Depizzol <vdepizzol gmail com>]

Hello everyone.

Sorry for not participating this discussion. I'm off finishing my
vacations and internet access is pretty limited right now. I'll try to
put the theme files online as soon as possible.

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:04 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
> Hang on. This is rather brief. Does it just allow translated text to be
> entered, or can it show when, and where, translations need to be updated
> when the original text changes? Does it show how much of the site is
> translated for a language already? If it can't do this (and if it never
> will) then I don't see how it can be good enough for the long term.

The WPML plugin used for localization in Wordpress allows to translate
templates, plugins and posts. To translate strings in the template
(all the text that is used in common areas, such as headers, footers
and specific pages), WPML shows a list with the number of fully
translated strings and the number of "not translated or needs update"
for each language. The translation system for strings in templates and
plugins works very similar to the way launchpad.net does.

For pages, posts and other contents (such as banners etc), WPML shows
in the list of posts when they're translated or not. There is no way
to know when translations needs to be updated when original text
changes however. I honestly think that this is not a major problem
(explanation follows).

If we will localize specific content such as banners (creating
different images for each language -- the wordpress implementation
already allows that), we will already have to use a mailing list
(gnome-web-list?) or other communication way to create a bridge
between who is creating these specific contents and who are the
responsibles to translate it. This way, we will already have an easy
way to communicate anything to website translators. We can just add a
policy to send a notification when there's a modification in a
translated page and our problem is solved.

Thank you.

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Vinicius Depizzol <vdepizzol gmail com>
http://vinicius.depizzol.com.br