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Living Room / Re: Opensource end-user focused applications wanted to translate
« on: February 13, 2008, 12:43 PM »
Yes, it is very similar to Rosetta (Launchpad) in some ways. The translation server we use, is called Pootle (designed by us), and you can see a number of software projects running their own installations of Pootle, here:
http://translate.sou.../pootle/live_servers
One nice thing about Pootle is the built-in quality checks. For example, there is a check to see if the end punctuation of the source text matches that of the target text, and if not, the translator/reviewer can visit that string to see whether it is a false positive or something that needs to be fixed. Other checks check for variables, accelerators, XML-like tags, number of sentences, URLs, capitalisation etc. By using these checks regularly, translators can quickly learn what types of things are important to software translation.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement.
http://translate.sou.../pootle/live_servers
One nice thing about Pootle is the built-in quality checks. For example, there is a check to see if the end punctuation of the source text matches that of the target text, and if not, the translator/reviewer can visit that string to see whether it is a false positive or something that needs to be fixed. Other checks check for variables, accelerators, XML-like tags, number of sentences, URLs, capitalisation etc. By using these checks regularly, translators can quickly learn what types of things are important to software translation.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement.