[geeklog-devel] CrowdTranslation plugin

[Tom]

I would allow for a selection of an existing language and the creation of a
new language with a config option to enable moderation (like how stories
work).

Besides Geeklog is it the plan to allow the crowd sourcing translation
plugin to translate other plugins (like the core plugins, forum or even
itself)?

Tom

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Let's drill down a bit on the starting points.

My first guess would be that the language items would be present in the
database.
This results in the requirement to load these language items. It is obvious
that we need a step too to export them, which could be implemented item-wise
or language wise.
So, if the database contains the language items, we also do have a language
list by querying the database.
If we agree on my guess, when the user enters "engslish", than that means a
new language by the simple fact of the absence in the database.
My guess would than be, to create a new language in the database with all
items already populated; this is needed to avoid that new items will be
created which have no use in the base code.

My second guess would be that a approval process would be better a
moderation process. So, anybody can register (at the main site) for a
translation, receives some credentials to load in his/hers local database
which could be checked by the plugin, probably at install time. That's
approval.
After export of a translation, we need people to moderate, which could be
crowd sourced also. My preference would be that moderation occurs at the
main site with released (exported) translations.

My third guess would be, that the progress of a (local) translation could be
monitored by a rss-feed.

Shoot!!

Wim



Op 16 jun. 2013, om 20:39 heeft Dirk Haun het volgende geschreven:

> Benjamin Talic wrote:
> 
>> Now I face the first big design question, do we let the user add any new
language they want to e.g. provide them with a text input box.
>> Or are they allowed to select one of a list of previously provided
options-like they do when they pick the language for the site?
> 
> Since the whole point of this project is to harness the power of the
crowds, I think we should allow users to submit translations for new
languages. However .
> 
> 
>> The downside of the first option is that users could input stuff like
Engslihs instead of English which would create a new 'language translation'.
> 
> 
> This could in fact be a problem.
> 
> My first thought was to have some sort of approval process: Allow users to
suggest a new language for translation, but only after it has been approved
(and possibly corrected) by an admin user. But if we make this too
complicated or if it takes too long, it could demotivate the potential
contributor.
> 
> Thoughts, anyone? Other ideas?
> 
> bye, Dirk
> 
> P.S. We're going to use
http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Crowdsourcing_Translations as the
project's "home page". Anyone interested may want to keep an eye on that
page.
> 
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