[Whonix-devel] translation experiences

[Patrick Schleizer]

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I am still struggling with preparing pages for translation.

Would work now, but the "edit" links within a page on the Download
page are broken.

Patrick Schleizer:
> Hi Jean,
> 
> it still is a bumpy ride. We're still figuring out how to best use 
> that translate extension.
> 
> Looks like simply wrapping the whole page into 
> <translate>...</translate> doesn't work very well if there is a
> lot markup on that page. And only wrapping text into 
> <translate>...</translate> is quite some work.
> 
> However, I did that at least for the main and the download page. 
> Please check if it's working better now.
> 
> Cheers, Patrick
> 
> Jean Elchinger:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Thanks for the notes, I figured that out. Since yesterday I
>> tried to translate the main page. 
>> https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Main_Page/fr For example, I
>> translated Main Page -> OK Screenshots -> NOT OK, I translated
>> the title "Screenshots" and that's OK but I copy/paste again and
>> again the content <gallery>...</gallery> and that's screwed
>> everytime. I don't know where it goes and why it is deleted.
> 
>> Same for "Thanks to..." -> NOT OK, get deleted again and again.
> 
>> Please advice. Thanks
> 
> 
>> On 03/03/14 11:37, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> a few Whonix wiki pages were translated. (To Russian, but the 
>>> langauge doesn't matter here.) The translator not having
>>> edited using mediawiki was confused by the wiki markup.
>>> 
>>> A big issue is, that wiki pages need to be properly prepared
>>> for translation. This isn't the case yet.
>>> 
>>> Currently, affected by a bug and confusing for the translator:
>>>  <translate> == headline == {{ some box = do_not_translate text
>>> = can_be_translated }} </translate>
>>> 
>>> (The bug is, the translation interface asks to translate text
>>> = can_be_translated }} but doesn't let the user store it,
>>> because it will complain about unbalanced parentheses.)
>>> 
>>> Better:
>>> 
>>> == <translate>headline</translate> ==
>>> 
>>> {{ some box = do_not_translate text = <translate> 
>>> can_be_translated </translate>
>>> 
>>> }}
>>> 
>>> So only the really translatable strings end up in the
>>> translation web interface.
>>> 
>>> We still don't have a translation coordinator working on these 
>>> things.
>>> 
>>> Links such as [[Download]] were translated to 
>>> [[Download-in-other-language]]. This won't work. Syntax is 
>>> [[pagename|naming of link]]. In other words [[can not be 
>>> translated|translate]]. I think it would be better if all
>>> links would use explicit descriptions such as
>>> [[Download|Download]]. So the translator could be told [[can
>>> not be translated|translate]].
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________
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