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=== Opportunistic translator ===
=== Opportunistic translator ===


This user '''just wants to help'''. S/he doesn't want to get tangled in the administrative tasks. The only possible collaboration available is to ''suggest'' translations (which will be reviewed by the {{pending|language/project?}} administrator.
This user '''just wants to help'''. She/he doesn't want to get tangled in the administrative tasks. The only possible collaboration available is to ''suggest'' translations (which will be reviewed by the {{pending|language/project?}} administrator.


; Admin notes : The permission must be granted. (project / language / permissions - nobody + suggest)
; Admin notes : The permission must be granted. (project / language / permissions - nobody + suggest)

Revision as of 16:22, 5 October 2007

OlpcProject.png Contact: AlfonsodgRafael Ortiz, Xavi

Here's a report of trying to document the ups & downs of installing Pootle.

Scenarios

Opportunistic translator

This user just wants to help. She/he doesn't want to get tangled in the administrative tasks. The only possible collaboration available is to suggest translations (which will be reviewed by the language/project? administrator.

Admin notes
The permission must be granted. (project / language / permissions - nobody + suggest)
Each language may have specific or special characters unavailable in the usual keyboards and can be defined in the admin space of the languages of the server.

Assuming Project: olpc Language: spanish

  1. Heads to pootle site
  2. Follows the olpc project link
  3. Enters the spanish language section
  4. Picks a file (ie: TamTamSynthLab which has fuzzy entries)
    • The interface will display a series of PO entries (one will have the focus—if it doesn't, hovering over one will make an 'Edit' link appear) that has an entry field, a fuzzy checkbox and the following action buttons:
      • Back — goes back to the previous entry
      • Skip — skips to the next entry (default action)
      • Copy — copies the 'msgid' value (continues in edit mode)
      • Suggest — the actual collaboration
      • Fuzzy — denotes that the suggested translation is/is not 100% trustworthy
      • Special characters specific to the language (see above for definition)
      • grow / shrink — allows growing and shrinking of the entry field
      • Translator comments — comments either extracted from the source code, or added by other translators
  5. The opportunistic translator the navigates the file entering suggestions (to be reviewed by the language/project? admin)

Registered translator

Language administrator

Project administrator

Site administrator

Proving Grounds

We are currently testing in an ad-hoc trial site

  • configuration
  • olpc project statistics
    (PO files were uploaded from fedora—except spanish, which came from the PO versiona in the wiki)
Language Translated Fuzzy Untranslated Total Diff.Spanish
arabic 198 78% 7 2% 48 18% 253 1425
portuguese BR 174 84% 12 5% 19 9% 205 1473
french 144 67% 15 7% 53 25% 212 1466
portuguese 12 42% 0 0% 16 57% 28 1650
spanish 1336 79% 342 20% 0 0% 1678

Observations

  • Casual translators may only 'suggest' translation
  • You can download the PO, so there's no forcing of the on-line UI.
  • In the translation interface, fuzzy entries are grayed out and there's a gray vertical line separating the terms

To Do

Usage

  • Define goals
  • Explore the 'suggest' function & review process
  • File maintenance: rename, delete files? How is it done? (ie: uploaded a file with a name that has no POT should not be valid—but I've done it—so if it was a mistake, how do you undo it?)
  • Is there any kind of verification when a PO file is uploaded to ensure the up-to-dateness of the original POT on which it is based? (ie: a PO is loaded but the POT on which it is based is a an older version)

Config

Glitches

  • Something related to encodings was wrong during the setup
    Alfonso commented several language specs that apparently were iso8859 instead of UTF ??
  • Haven't found the way to read / load the .POT files using git
  • User permits seem a bit awkward (per user, no groups except for 'nobody' & 'default')

See also