From: Marc L. <ma...@ma...> - 2006-02-05 06:49:47
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Hi! There are 6,912 known living languages in the world today. 347 (or approximately 5%) of the world's languages have at least one million speakers and account for 94% of the world's population. By contrast, the remaining 95% of languages are spoken by only 6% of the world's people. 75 languages have more than 10 million speakers. Source: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, www.ethnologue.com/web.asp We have about 30 languages in Tiki now. Squirrelmail has nearly 50 languages. Given the statistics above, I'd like to see Tiki translated in over 100 languages within 12-18 months. It seems to me that the technical part is all solved. Tiki works in right-to-left languages and for languages which do not use A-Z letters ex: Chinese/Japanese. Are there any technical challenges remaining? What should we do to have Tiki available in more languages and for our translations to be more complete? I would like to hear from people who have translated or want to translate, etc Below are some open questions. Please just share whatever is on your mind. 1. What motivates you to translate Tiki? 2. What demotivates you to translate Tiki? 3. Is it easy to contribute a translation? If so why? If not, why not? How can we have more sites like http://de.tikiwiki.org/ http://hu.tikiwiki.org/ http://fr.tikiwiki.org/ etc Should we setup a site focused on internationalization? A community area for translators? Ex.: i18n.tikiwiki.org Is committing your translations via CVS a problem? Should we try to setup a web interface? Or something like Rosetta? https://launchpad.net/rosetta Thanks! M ;-) |