Hi Dne úterý 26. září 2017 17:32:57 CEST, Sarah Julia Kriesch napsal(a):
Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. September 2017 um 12:58 Uhr Von: "Vojtěch Zeisek" <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> An: "mailinglist openSUSE" <opensuse-translation@opensuse.org> Betreff: [opensuse-translation] Other translations
we are preparing - together with Mozilla and LibreOffice - small workshop for translators for upcoming Czech Linux Days https://www.linuxdays.cz/2017/en/ I'm going to show our Weblate https://l10n.opensuse.org/languages/cs/ Of course. It's good tool.
That's a great idea! Thaks you do it. :-)
Anyone to join? :-)
Instructions https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Localization_guide seem to me bit brief, but together with https://docs.weblate.org/en/weblate-2.13.1/ it should be enough. I hope... :-/ Other point is documentation. Wiki (Well, I don't like WikiMedia as CMS, so I don't work in this area...) https://languages.opensuse.org/Help:Translation has also bit brief and outdated (e.g. no word about Leap!) information. Who is responsible for that and should keep it updated? At least the general information. It doesn't look very encouraging for the newcomers (last edited 5 years ago)...
Everybody can contribute to the wiki. We don't have any special
So how is the consistency kept then? I don't wont to drive the discussion to the Wiki solely, but this is obvious question to emerge...
responsibilities. We have some pages where you need admin permissions for editing. If you have problems, you can ask your questions on the wiki mailinglist. Why do we need the word Leap in the Translation help? That's one portal and it will be updated/ created during every release by the release management team (call on the mailinglist). In addition, Leap pages of the English wiki are updated in general by the release management team.
Look at https://languages.opensuse.org/Help:Translation#Portals The list seems to be outdated. Obviously it is. Yes, I can edit it, but I don't know how this process (creation and maintenance of multilingual oS Wiki) is organized and the page then seems to be abandoned. I.e. if I'd edit it, it might be useless as nobody could care, as seen by non-existing maintenance of the Wiki page...
Anyway, our https://cs.opensuse.org/ is not in the best state (bit poor). Our problem. More generally, are there guidelines, what (at least) should be translated? Hot to keep multilingual pages of various languages similar? I mean same design, structure, etc. Might be I'm asking obvious question, I'm not really familiar with MediaWiki...
I believe the German wiki has the most content after the English wiki. Most important portals like main page (by any admin) and Leap/ Tumbleweed portals should be translated first. Look that you don't have any red links any more. After that you can take the next portal. We have a separate mailing list for wiki maintainers. We support you there with the wiki update. :-) Everybody can learn using MediaWiki and contribute there. You can copy content and change the text to your language.
Yes. As one-time task it can work. But as far as I know, there are no traces of changes regarding state of translations. If something is changed in the English original, how to easily see which corresponding translated section needs to be updated in other languages?
Are there any plans/possibilities to translate https://doc.opensuse.org/ ?
doc.opensuse.org is part of the SUSE documentation team. You can create Pull Requests with contributions on github (https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle). You would need additional tools for translations. We had a long discussion
This is no-way. It is written in DocBook, isn't it? Me, personally, after HTML and TEX I'm not going for this new syntax, which is otherwise useless for me. And unless there are PO files and some tools to help keeping track how much is translated and so on (compare with Weblate), it is not user-friendly for translators. They wish to comfortably translate and use software they are familiar with (and use also for other tasks), not to "fight" with special technical tools.
about our different tools at openSUSE: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2017-01/msg00005.html If you want
I'm not sure I fully got sense of that, but I'd highlight this particular message https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-wiki/2016-12/msg00034.html
to contribute to documentation (translation), you should contribute to the wiki. That's easy to use and should be updated continously. My recommendation: Subscribe the wiki mailinglist!
Wiki is documentation? Well, what is https://doc.opensuse.org/ then? ;-) This always bit confused me and You did not make it clear. :-) I like doc.o.o as it is really valuable source of information, but with current methods I don't see possibility of it to being translated. Well, we don't have any volunteer to start to translate tomorrow, but if there is no tool to comfortably handle translations, there will be no one...
Just in case there would be some volunteer. ;-) How it is done, when new version is released? What about other tools and web applications? Do they have support/possibility of being translated? If so, how? Are there any other projects to be translated (not hosted on Weblate)? Right now, I'd like to get complete overview and sort things little bit...
We have only the wiki beside of weblate. I write "Call for Translations" for every release. That's the time stamp for wiki translations, too. ;-) Some days before the release pages like repositories and main pages should be updated. Our new search in the wiki is a really good help to test all.
Good. I'd strongly prefer any other new project to be translated to be available in Weblate. It's easy to use tool. V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/