Languages Session - Hackweek 2020/04/16

We will try translations for one or two weeks and collect ideas and obstacles here, before writing a guide for new volunteers and a blog post inviting the community to use Weblate.

How to get started

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/trustroots/
please register if you want to do translate a lot (github oauth possible), otherwise you can only “suggest”, not “save”
To add a new language: open a component -> “start new translation”
it’s helpful to have Trustroots open next it, to see context
There’s 2 buttons: “Save” and “Suggest”
- use “Save” when you’re sure, “suggest” when you want someone else to have a look
Use the glossary for often-used words …
placeholders! don’t translate them, but leave them in your translation
- words in Template:Double curly brackets should stay as they are
- <1>, <2>, </1>, </2> should stay, but the words in between should be translated (they will be replaced by html tags later)
Use a glossary for words that appear often:
- “Add word to glossary”
- with another string, it will then appear in the top right when the word is part of that string

Ideas

Having Trustroots open in another tab is too much work, could we ave screenshots in Weblate for context?
Or maybe is even in-page / in-line editing possible?
If adding screenshots for each segment is too hard to implement (too much work) another option would be to translate what can be done without much context and add comments where a clarifying screenshot is needed.
Have a text somewhere on the page saying “translations are a community effort, you can help”
Have a “disclaimer” of sorts on the translated versions, in the lines of “This is a translation of the English original. If you see anything odd, -click here- to let us know.” This would allow for direct feedback after launch.
We should have translations live (deployed) before inviting the community, so people have immediate feedback

Tech stuff

strings are located in json files: https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/tree/master/public/locales
how can we have Weblate integrate new languages automatically?