Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] Translations (Transifex)

[Jose G. <jos...@ge...>]

Hi Kari

See comments inline.

Regards,
Jose García

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Kari Salovaara <kar...@pp...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If translator for Finnish language has been/is native Finn, it's not
> viable to throw away good start.
>


I don't know about who has manage the actual translations in GeoNetwork for
Finnish, I hope some some native Finn, but at least in transifex I don't
see any Finn member in the Finnish translation.


> At the moment I've a lot else to do, but next month I could check that
> and do the translation.
> My time goes now in one application to correct translations made by some
> spaniard using google translation, result is not understandable! Don't
> ever...
>

Of course, translations to an specific language should be done by native
speakers in the language. Google Translator is not a good idea for this.

The idea of moving GeoNetwork translations to transifex is that native
translators manage them for each language.


>
> Cheers,
> Kari
>
>
> 15.6.2016, 17:04, María Arias de Reyna kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just removed five languages on transifex because they had no
> > translators and nothing translated in them. If needed, can be added
> > later again.
>
>
> > There are also a lot of other languages with translators but no
> > translations done. So the translators are inactive. Should we start
> > cleaning it up? The languages are:
> >
> > Adyghe
> > Arabic
> > Chinese
> > Greek (Greece) -> There is a generic Greek translation already
> > translated. Should we still keep this?
> > Norwegian
> > Russian
> > Spanish (Latin America) -> there is a generic Spanish "neutral"
> > translation, unless there are latin american who want to maintain this
> > separatedly, I would delete it straight forward.
> > Swedish (Sweden)
> > Welsh
> >
> > There are also many languages with a very low percentage translated:
> >
> > Portuguese 7% -> as with Spanish, the Brazilian version is almost
> > finished. Not this one. Maybe we drop one of them?
> > Italian 5%
> > Polish 1%
> > Swedish 1%
> >
> > I don't want to remove them because that will mean losing this small
> > percentage. But are there some of the translators reading this and
> > maybe want to share if they are going to maintain it?
> >
> > And also some other languages have a very low percentage, is there
> > some way to encourage translators to increase it?
> >
> > Czech (Czech Republic) 49%
> > Vietnamese 46%
> > Persian 43%
> > Greek 36%
> > Finnish 25%
> >
> > Regards,
> > María.
> >
> >
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