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Proprietary projects

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Akerbeltz 17:17, 3 dhen Dàmhair 2013

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Then what?

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SabineCretella: /* Then what? */ +Drupal +DictionaryForMids +OmegaWiki

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Then what?: +Drupal +DictionaryForMids +OmegaWiki

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 ====Proprietary projects====
 There are also proprietary projects you can translate. It depends on your philosophy I guess. Mine is that we will try to give to our community what the community uses/wants. We don't have the luxury of saying "use the xyz app on Ubuntu" if everyone is (sadly) on Windows.
-* [url]https://swiftkey.com/en]'''SwiftKey'''[/url] is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
+* [https://swiftkey.com/en '''SwiftKey'''] is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
 * '''GenoPro''' (a genealogy program)

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 ====Proprietary projects====
 There are also proprietary projects you can translate. It depends on your philosophy I guess. Mine is that we will try to give to our community what the community uses/wants. We don't have the luxury of saying "use the xyz app on Ubuntu" if everyone is (sadly) on Windows.
-* [url:https://swiftkey.com/en]'''SwiftKey'''[/url] is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
+* [url]https://swiftkey.com/en]'''SwiftKey'''[/url] is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
 * '''GenoPro''' (a genealogy program)

@@ Loidhne 22: / Loidhne 22: @@
 ====Proprietary projects====
 There are also proprietary projects you can translate. It depends on your philosophy I guess. Mine is that we will try to give to our community what the community uses/wants. We don't have the luxury of saying "use the xyz app on Ubuntu" if everyone is (sadly) on Windows.
-* '''SwiftKey''' ([https://swiftkey.com/en]) is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
+* [url:https://swiftkey.com/en]'''SwiftKey'''[/url] is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
 * '''GenoPro''' (a genealogy program)

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 ====Proprietary projects====
 There are also proprietary projects you can translate. It depends on your philosophy I guess. Mine is that we will try to give to our community what the community uses/wants. We don't have the luxury of saying "use the xyz app on Ubuntu" if everyone is (sadly) on Windows.
-* [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/skype-translation-project/ '''Skype''']
+* '''SwiftKey''' ([https://swiftkey.com/en]) is exceptionally open to adding smaller languages (we're talking languages like Rapa Nui, Manx and Samoan) to the app, which is great because not being able to type in your language is often the biggest hurdle on mobile devices.
 * '''GenoPro''' (a genealogy program)

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 * '''Google''' - They have essentially axed their community languages project and are taking a general stance of "Fuck off" when it comes to small languages)
 * '''Joomla!''' - Unless you have a computing degree, this will drive you insane. WordPress is an equally powerful tool and involves less insanity in translation
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 There's a lot of projects out there and it's not always easy to choose where to begin, especially if you are interested in doing a language with a small speaker base. Now this is just based on my own experience with such a language but here's what I would focus on:
-# Firefox (via the [http://mozilla.locamotion.org/ Locamotion] project. It's both a well known product and we all use web browsers a lot. It's of a moderate size so it's a good one to start with, develop your terminology, build a team (if that's an option) and so on. You don't have to be at 100% to get a release.
+# '''Firefox''' (via the [http://mozilla.locamotion.org/ Locamotion] project. It's both a well known product and we all use web browsers a lot. It's of a moderate size so it's a good one to start with, develop your terminology, build a team (if that's an option) and so on. You don't have to be at 100% to get a release.
-# LibreOffice (the translation project being [https://translations.documentfoundation.org/ here]). It will give you an office suite which covers 99% of what normal users would ever want to do in terms of office stuff. It's a fairly hefty project so I recommend you focus on Writer (the word processing tool) first, then Calc (the spreadsheet tool) and then whatever takes your fancy. Leave the database part till last. You don't have to be at 100% to get a release. '''Note:''' Ignoring the politics, LibreOffice is the new (and more active) OpenOffice. I would not recommend at this point that you join OpenOffice to translate for a number of reasons.
+# '''LibreOffice''' (the translation project being [https://translations.documentfoundation.org/ here]). It will give you an office suite which covers 99% of what normal users would ever want to do in terms of office stuff. It's a fairly hefty project so I recommend you focus on Writer (the word processing tool) first, then Calc (the spreadsheet tool) and then whatever takes your fancy. Leave the database part till last. You don't have to be at 100% to get a release. '''Note:''' Ignoring the politics, LibreOffice is the new (and more active) OpenOffice. I would not recommend at this point that you join OpenOffice to translate for a number of reasons.
 # At this point, you should consider doing a spellchecker, not only because you can integrate it with Firefox and LibreOffice but also because you can build other stuff on the back of it (see the next item). I warmly recommend you build it using a [http://akerbeltzalba.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/a-bit-of-lexicographic-navelgazing/ relational database]. It's less geeky than it sounds and with a little help, not that hard to do but it will seriously futureproof your work, more so than a wordlist.
-# Predictive texting. Of all the tools you can do, you will find this one has the fastest and biggest uptake, even in communities where acceptance of software in the locale language is slow to take off. [http://adaptxt.com/adaptxtlive/adaptxtfeatures Adaptxt] is an open source project that welcomes any new language. The process is a bit fiddly, you probably want someone on the team who can do a bit of code.
+# Predictive texting. Of all the tools you can do, you will find this one has the fastest and biggest uptake, even in communities where acceptance of software in the locale language is slow to take off. [http://adaptxt.com/adaptxtlive/adaptxtfeatures '''Adaptxt'''] is an open source project that welcomes any new language. The process is a bit fiddly, you probably want someone on the team who can do a bit of code.
-# The [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/vlc-trans/ VLC] media player is probably next on the list. It's a ''huge'' file to translate but you only need to pass about 20% to get a release. Focus on the most visible strings, most of the video/sound editing features no-one ever sees.
+# The [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/vlc-trans/ '''VLC'''] media player is probably next on the list. It's a ''huge'' file to translate but you only need to pass about 20% to get a release. Focus on the most visible strings, most of the video/sound editing features no-one ever sees.
 ====Then what?====
 From here on, it broadens out and all depends on how much time and stamina you have. Good projects to consider are:
-* [https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ Ubuntu]
+* [https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ '''Ubuntu''']
-* the two WordPresses
+* the two '''WordPresses'''
-* [http://www.scrabble3d.info/ Scrabble3D] (there are other really nice Open Source games out there too, like ''Frogatto & Friends'', ''Battle for Wesnoth'', ''Freeciv'' and so on. As a rule of thumb with Open Source games, before you start, check out how active the community is, if it's very silent, the project might be near death.
+* [http://www.scrabble3d.info/ '''Scrabble3D'''] (there are other really nice Open Source games out there too, like ''Frogatto & Friends'', ''Battle for Wesnoth'', ''Freeciv'' and so on. As a rule of thumb with Open Source games, before you start, check out how active the community is, if it's very silent, the project might be near death.
-* Thunderbird (email) and Lightning (calender)
+* '''Thunderbird''' (email) and Lightning (calender)
-* [http://drupal.org Drupal] is one of the most powerful Content Management Systems and fairly easy to localize. Your localization can then be exported and, if not included in the official packages, made available elsewhere.
+* [http://drupal.org '''Drupal'''] is one of the most powerful Content Management Systems and fairly easy to localize. Your localization can then be exported and, if not included in the official packages, made available elsewhere.
-* [http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/ Dictionary for Mids] is another project you might like. It is a dictionary application that can be used on PCs and mobile phones and gets its data from various projects, one among others:
+* [http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/ '''Dictionary for Mids'''] is another project you might like. It is a dictionary application that can be used on PCs and mobile phones and gets its data from various projects, one among others:
-*[http://omegawiki.org OmegaWiki] Which is a dictionary application, edited online, but lately it is also possible to get .csv export. There is now a project connection between Dictionary for Mids and Omegat. Besides that, added data there can also be used to build a first spell checker.
+*[http://omegawiki.org '''OmegaWiki'''] Which is a dictionary application, edited online, but lately it is also possible to get .csv export. There is now a project connection between Dictionary for Mids and Omegat. Besides that, added data there can also be used to build a first spell checker.
 ====Proprietary projects====
 There are also proprietary projects you can translate. It depends on your philosophy I guess. Mine is that we will try to give to our community what the community uses/wants. We don't have the luxury of saying "use the xyz app on Ubuntu" if everyone is (sadly) on Windows.
-* [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/skype-translation-project/ Skype]
+* [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/skype-translation-project/ '''Skype''']
-* GenoPro (a genealogy program)
+* '''GenoPro''' (a genealogy program)
 ====Projects to avoid====
-* Google - They have essentially axed their community languages project and are taking a general stance of "Fuck off" when it comes to small languages)
+* '''Google''' - They have essentially axed their community languages project and are taking a general stance of "Fuck off" when it comes to small languages)
-* Joomla! - Unless you have a computing degree, this will drive you insane. WordPress is an equally powerful tool and involves less insanity in translation
+* '''Joomla!''' - Unless you have a computing degree, this will drive you insane. WordPress is an equally powerful tool and involves less insanity in translation
-* Opera - They do accept new/small languages but a) it's proprietary and b) their marketing department is currently taking an odd stance towards even established (small) languages. On the other hand they have the only functional mobile browser that's got good uptake. Tricky one.
+* '''Opera''' - They do accept new/small languages but a) it's proprietary and b) their marketing department is currently taking an odd stance towards even established (small) languages. On the other hand they have the only functional mobile browser that's got good uptake. Tricky one.
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