Translation

Overview

We need to look at people, tools, priorities, jobs.

Team

(In time there could be a table, sortable by language. Help if you can.)

• LucasG, Alexandra Saxton - Spanish
• Elifarley Cruz - Portuguese
• Etienne Duport - French
• ...

We need to find ways to engage "one shot" translators who won't work inside a team: people who are interested in some specific page for a specific language, not in translations in general. We can see it as a grid: some are interested in lines (one language), some in rows (some domain), some in cells (a specific page for a specific language). In time, some may even be interested in curating domain dictionaries ("shaft" is not a word I normally use so I don't know what it is in Spanish).

Tools

• http://universalsubtitles.org/ - useful for subtitles, used at (example), now accepts vimeo too.
• http://piratepad.net - useful for cooperative transcription, with chat window on the side.
• Google Translator Toolkit - Probably better than piratepad for cooperative (and machine-assisted) translations. Accepted formats include:
  • URL of a file on the web
  • URL of a Wikipedia article
  • URL of a Knol article
  • AdWords Editor Archive (.aea)
  • HTML (.html)
  • Microsoft Word (.doc)
  • OpenDocument (.odt)
  • Text (.txt)
  • Rich Text (.rtf)
  • SubRip (.srt)
  • SubViewer (.sub)
• ...

Wiki translation

• There's some work done already.
• ...

Video Translation

• There's some work done already.
• See Video_translation
• ...

Priorities

We'll have a list of priorities in this section soon.

For now, let's use a list of tentative priorities:

• Prototype of the main page
• ...