Re: [Semediawiki-user] Internationalization

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

Hi Robert,

Depending on what exactly you're trying to do, Jeroen's new "Live Translate"
extension might help:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Live_Translate

It basically offers the equivalent of the Google Chrome "translate" bar (if
you've seen that one), but within the wiki page.

-Yaron


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Robin Patterson <Ro...@sl...>wrote:

> Familypedia has been trying to be multilingual. Most of the basic interface
> is produced in a hundred or so languages by Wikia, the host, but our SMW
> expert tried to further than that with labels and instructions of forms,
> etc.
>
> http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/template:string was a large part of the
> result. But with recent version changes and other mysterious difficulties
> we
> had to suspend much of it. Still hoping.
>
> Robin F Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road,
> Plimmerton, Porirua City, New Zealand
> http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/User:Robin_Patterson
>
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> From: "Robert Murphy" <mra...@gm...>
> To: "Mailing List SemanticMediaWiki"
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> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:55 PM
> Subject: [Semediawiki-user] Internationalization
>
>
> >I have to confess to being a selfish American up to this point.  Even
> >though
> > I've lived all over the world, the last dozen years have been in the
> > U.S.A.,
> > and it's made me soft.  I realized this today when the first German tried
> > to
> > join my site.  Now, a few Swedes and a Dutchman have come along before,
> > but
> > they all spoke perfect English.  But, when I changed "my
> > preferences"->"user
> > profile"->"Language" to "de" for the first time, I saw how barren a
> > landscape I had made for this poor man.
> >
> > I went back and changed all my ridiculous [[Mediawiki:Sidebar]]
> neologisms
> > into Mediawiki:names that I could, but there were some that had no
> > pre-packaged equivalents.  Even [[Special:BrowseData]] -- while mostly
> > translated -- showed all my properties to be hopelessly Anglo-centric.
> >
> > Assuming that someone is using Chrome and getting lots of translation
> help
> > from Google, what else can be done to internationalize SMW wiki's?  Some
> > people have multilingual sites, right?  If I don't have a lot of text,
> but
> > mostly only data, can I maintain just ONE site, or is that never a
> > possibility?  What are other people doing?
> >
> > Confessionaly,
> >
> > Robert M.
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