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I think I spotted some typos:
110 msgid "foundation" 111 msgstr "participate" 112 113 msgid "foundationlink" 114 msgstr "link to participate" # shouldn't they read 'foundation' instead of 'participate' the msgstr?
- well, we are using participate even though we really mean foundation...
- no problem, is just that some lines later you have the 'participate' links themselves... ;)
... 271 msgstr "Most of the nearly two—billion children in the developing world are inadequately educated, or receive no education at all. One in three does not complete the fifth grade." # mdash?
- good catch
272
273 msgid "missionp2"
274 msgstr "The individual and societal consequences of this chronic global crisis
are profound. Children are consigned to poverty and isolation—just like
their parents—never guessing what the light of learning could mean in
their lives. At the same time, their governments struggle to compete in
a rapidly evolving, global information economy, hobbled by a vast and
increasingly urban underclass that cannot support itself, much less
contribute to the commonweal, because it lacks the tools to do so."
# commonweal?
- commonweal means "The public good or welfare."
- Really? There's always something to learn! :) (I was just too lazy to check the dictionary, and assumed a typo or similar between commonwealth or well-being or something :)
...
288 msgid "missionp5"
289 msgstr "XO embodies the theories of constructionism first developed by MIT Media
Lab Professor Seymour Papert in the 1960s, and later elaborated upon by
Alan Kay, complemented by the principles articulated by Nicholas
Negroponte in his book, <i>Being Digital<\i>."
# </i>?
- oops
...
292 msgstr "Extensively field-tested and validated among some of the poorest and most
remote populations on earth, constructionism emphasizes what Papert calls
"learning learning" as the fundamental educational experience. A
computer uniquely fosters learning learning by allowing children to "think
about thinking", in ways that are otherwise impossible. Using the XO as
both their window on the world, as well as a highly programmable tool for
exploring it, children in emerging nations will be opened to both illimitable
knowledge and to their own creative and problem"solving potential."
# " not closed/opened?
- another oops.
--Walter 19:48, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
- I 'caught' them while going through it and translating into spanish... I was going to ask if this is the 'official' version to translate or not, but got carried away :) I'll report others if I find any, I'm halfway through it, and hopefully I'll finish my first draft either later today or tomorrow... --Xavi 13:04, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
- There is a section on Hardware that is still to be added and I will probably move the news section directly into the wiki, where it will be easier to maintain, but in general, this is pretty much set. Thanks. --Walter 15:30, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
- I'm almost finished (got a couple new trivial 'bugs' which I'll post later) but I'm a bit worried about some of the legalese that I'm currently translating on the msgid "participateh2" / msgstr "OLPC Foundation Volunteer Service"... which includes the acceptance of terms and conditions... thus mistranslations could be a problem. Ideas?
- I need to got through that section. I would leave it out for the time being. --Walter
Other odd typos
Just a couple more trivial typos...
398 msgid "progressn12"
399 msgstr "Later in the month, Negroponte presents the idea for the $100 laptop at the
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the political, economic,
and cultural elite of the world"e; gather each year. Although he has
# "e; ?
nothing to show his audience but a simple mock-up with no functioning parts,
the machine makes a big splash. John Markoff writing for The New York
Times, calls Negroponte "the Johnny Appleseed of the digital era.""
525 msgid "peoplename2" 526 msgstr "Antonio Battro # " missing
615 msgid "peoplename12"
616 msgstr "Nia Lewis"
617
618 msgid "peoplerank12"
619 msgstr ""
620
621 msgid "peoplep12"
622 msgstr ""
623
624 msgid "peoplename13"
625 msgstr "Robert Fadel"
626
627 msgid "peoplerank12"
628 msgstr "Director of Finance"
629
630 msgid "peoplep12"
631 msgstr "Robert Fadel is managing the administrative functions, and assisting in
strategic planning and relations with partner organizations and governments."
# There seems to be some off-sync between ID #s - peoplep12 & peoplerank12 are duplicated
842 msgid "childrenrightsidebar2"
843 msgstr “resources”
# msgstr is using open-close quotes (“”) instead of straight quotes ("")?
Other spanish translation notes
770 msgid "participateaddressline1" 771 msgstr "OLPC Foundation" 772 773 msgid "participateaddressline2" 774 msgstr "One Cambridge Center" 775 776 msgid "participateaddressline3" 777 msgstr "Cambridge Massachusetts, 02142" 778 779 msgid "participateaddressline4" 780 msgstr "U.S.A." # Standards for surface mail indicate that only the destination country's name should # be translated to the local language (so that local mail people can actually route it)
- Children => Chico o Niño
- I have systematically used 'chico' (instead of 'niño') mainly because: (a) it sort of preserves the OLPC name (technically it would be ULPC instead of ULPN), and (b) you can type in any latin keyboard ;) But given that this translation will be more 'official' (read non-wiki) it could be an appropriate time to think about which should be the official or de-facto standard in spanish...
- Laptop => Laptop
- It could be translated, but it loses too much (ie: technically it could be translated to 'Ordenador Portátil' in Spain, but probably 'Computadora Portátil' in LatAm)...
- Upper/lower case
- I preserved the case of the 'section titles', although there are some inconsistencies towards the end...
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n" # What (if anything) should go there?
msgid "align" msgstr "_: the alignment (left or right) of your language goes here" # 'left' is the answer... but where and how? :)
Cheers, --Xavi 12:49, 15 March 2007 (EDT)
new round
#: software.html msgid "softwaretitle: # missing " and extra :?
msgid "leftsidebartop" msgstr ... msgid "leftsidebarmiddle" msgstr ... msgid "leftsidebarbottom" msgstr ... # are the links in the msgstr correct? # (excluded strings - the wiki was embeding the images)
msgid "interfacetitle" msgstr "OLPC is about to shake up things once more" ... msgid "interfacep2" msgstr "OLPC is about to shake up things once more" # same text?