[geeklog-devel] CrowdTranslation plugin

[Niemans]

I like the idea of similarity with stories. Gives Benjamin a head start, too.
What about enabling comments? Statistics? Searches?

Wim

Op 16 jun. 2013, om 22:41 heeft Tom het volgende geschreven:

> 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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