Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Localisation of content pages / wiki words?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Reini Urban schrieb:
> I decided now to write a _WikiTranslation plugin, which helps
> * on translating strings,
> * pages - by using an external translator (Google) -, and
> * displaying the translation matrix for certain lists,
>   like pages, buttons, plugins and all wikiwords.

It's in CVS as plugin/_WikiTranslation.php
Should be at the demo site tomorrow Pacific Time
(0 am pacific time or 9:00 CET).

_WikiTranslation:  Display pagenames and other strings in
various languages. Can also be used to let a favorite translation 
service translate a whole page. Current favorite: translate.google.com 
if from_lang = en or fr

Examples:
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation page=HomePage languages=fr ?>
     Translation service for HomePage into french (redirect
     to translate.google.com)
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation what=pages ?>
     Translation matrix of all pages with proper translations
     (all pages in pgsrc)
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation what=wikiwords match="W*" limit=20 ?>
     Translation matrix of the first 20 wikiwords matching "W*"
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation string=HomePage languages=fr,de,sv ?>
     Translation matrix for all given languages
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation string=HomePage ?>
     Translation matrix for all supported languages
  <?plugin _WikiTranslation string=HomePage languages=fr ?>
     Just return the translated string for this language.

What I want to add is a link in the matrix to let users suggest 
translations online to ease localisation.
This would help the wikiadmin to add needed strings to locale/$lang.po

 > But no locale redirector yet, though I think it's a cool idea.

Mediawiki (wikipedia) uses it's own db table for the page translation 
matrix and uses its own syntax to link to a different language.

We could make use of the _WikiTranslation helpers and define special 
interwiki monikers for translated pages, similar to the magic "Upload:" 
moniker. I think this would be the most transparent method.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/