Translation HOWTO - Revision history

Joseba at 16:33, 20 January 2010

2010-01-20T16:33:51Z

Joseba at 16:30, 20 January 2010

2010-01-20T16:30:34Z

Any Key: adding category L10N

2009-04-11T07:46:21Z

adding category L10N

Kempelen: /* Translating Openmoko Wiki */ format

2008-08-31T11:39:39Z

‎Translating Openmoko Wiki: format

Kempelen: Article title and category naming guidelines.

2008-08-31T11:34:28Z

Article title and category naming guidelines.

FWolff: /* Software */ +Pootle, +gedit

2008-08-24T08:59:42Z

‎Software: +Pootle, +gedit

Coolcat: /* Finding what to translate */

2008-08-13T09:33:38Z

‎Finding what to translate

Coolcat: /* List of OpenMoko related PO's */

2008-08-13T09:04:44Z

‎List of OpenMoko related PO's

Coolcat: /* Translating */

2008-08-13T09:02:44Z

‎Translating

Coolcat: /* Finding what to translate */

2008-08-13T09:02:32Z

‎Finding what to translate

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 Rule of thumb: It's better to have some translation than nothing, so feel free to translate.
 To create a new translation, simply click on your language's link when viewing the English version and start editing in the appearing box.
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 Translated articles should not be added to the English category. Please always use the language suffix for the category name too.
 === Article titles ===

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	Rule of thumb: It's better to have some translation than nothing, so feel free to translate.		Rule of thumb: It's better to have some translation than nothing, so feel free to translate.
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		+	=== Add your language ===
		+
		+	If your language does not appear in the language list add a new line on [[Template:Languages]] for your language
		+
		+	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Template:Languages

	To create a new translation, simply click on your language's link when viewing the English version and start editing in the appearing box.		To create a new translation, simply click on your language's link when viewing the English version and start editing in the appearing box.

← Older revision		Revision as of 07:46, 11 April 2009
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	[[Category:Wiki Editing]]		[[Category:Wiki Editing]]
		+	[[Category:L10N]]

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 Rule of thumb: It's better to have some translation than nothing, so feel free to translate.
-=== Translated article titles ===
+To create a new translation, simply click on your language's link when viewing the English version and start editing in the appearing box.
-−
-Please use the '''English''' title of the article. This will ensure that the language bar template can link to localized version of the article. For example: [[Main_Page]] and [[Main_Page/fr]].
-−
-To create a new translation, simply add your language's code after the page name when viewing the English version and start editing in the appearing box.
 Always add the Languages template to the page, so that users can link back to other languages. For example this page starts with:
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 Translated articles should not be added to the English category. Please always use the language suffix for the category name too.
-=== Translated category names ===
+=== Article titles ===
-The category names must be '''English''', and append your language's code to the end. This will ensure that language bar will work and allow users to navigate between various languages. For example: [[:Category:Hardware]] and [[:Category:Hardware/fr]].
+The category names must be '''English'''. Append your language's code to the end. This will ensure that language bar will work and allow users to navigate between various languages of the category. For example: [[:Category:Hardware]] and [[:Category:Hardware/fr]].
-If the category name becomes red in your article, that means there is no '''category page''' for this category yet in this lagnuage. (First make sure you don't have a typo in the name!) Please click that red category name, and create the category page for it, which contains the following:
+If the category name becomes red in your article, that means there is no '''category page''' for this category yet in this language. (First make sure you don't have a typo in the name!) Please click that red category name, and create the category page for it, which contains the following:
 * Languages template, same as on the English version of the category
 * Parent categories, same as on the English version but with language suffixes
-For example:
+For example on [[:Category:Basic End User]]:
 <pre><nowiki>

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-Main page for localisation is [[Translation]]
+{{Languages|Translation_HOWTO}}
-help to improve this page
-== Finding what to translate ==
+Main page for localization is [[Translation]]. This page contains some help on how to do Wiki text and Openmoko software translations.
-If you are not sure what page is most popular and reday for translation. Please refer to following list.
-Plaese start at these pages. Or you can add the page you think is important.
+Please start at these pages. Or you can add the page you think is important.
 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 0em " cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
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 |}
-== Translating ==
+== Translating Openmoko software ==
-Rule of thumb: It's better to have some translation than nothing, so feel free to translate.
-== Software ==
+There are specialized tools for *.pot (*.po) files edition gtranslator, po4a, poedit, pootle, potool ... [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index Pootle] can host several projects and languages to coordinate translation activities, and allow online translation.
-There are specialised tools for *.pot (*.po) files edition gtranslator, po4a, poedit, pootle, potool ... [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index Pootle] can host several projects and languages to coordinate translation activities, and allow online translation.
 Most of text editors will fit also: vim, emacs, ed, gedit ...
-== Updating source tree ==
+=== Updating source tree ===
 {{todo|descript SVN update after editing}}
 == Notes ==
 * Encoding for *.po is UTF-8
-* Most of packages in Openembedded tree allready iternationalised, its worth to review them
+* Most of packages in [[OpenEmbedded]] tree already internationalized, its worth to review them
-== Common space for localisation effort ==
 '''please join the community ml for now.''' there's also some talking about creating a translators ml [[Talk:Translation#Need for translation mailing list (and coordinators?)|here]] [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-April/004973.html and here: OM-i18n-ml] feel free to join both discussions. [[User:Cga|cga]] sat apr 28th 20:48:35 CEST 2007)
-== List of Openmoko related PO's==
+=== List of Openmoko related PO's===
 Most of apps in /home/moko/sources/svn/ and /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/target/OM-2007/applications/ don have *.pot files for now, but some of them have *.po files for some of the languages
-{{Languages|Translation_HOWTO}}

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 | [[Om2008.8]] ||none || none ||todo
 |}
 == Translating ==

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 If you are not sure what page is most popular and wait for translation. Please refer to the following list, these pages are most popular, and its content is stable .
-Plaese start at these pages. Or you can add the page you want
+Plaese start at these pages. Or you can add the page you think is important.
 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 0em " cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"