website translation experiments

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Jul 15, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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> This may not go anywhere - but it might, so please bear with me...
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> I have spent a few hours (mostly because I suck at Perl) and wrote a couple of scripts to try to connect our current git based translation system for the website with Transifex.
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> There's a new resource on Transifex that is called "about" and that contains the strings of our landing page. For the website we currently have translations to de_DE fr_FR es_ES it_IT nl_NL pl_PL ru_RU pt_PT fi_FI so these are the ones that have been populated. The closer the translations were to the English version, the better these imports will be. While eventually we can consider other translations, right now I'm not asking for people to add more translations!
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> If you would like to help me figure out if this is feasible and you speak (doesn't matter at this point how fluently) one of these languages, you could help me by logging into Transifex and cleaning up the translations of that "about" resource. The biggest issue likely will be "translations" that are on the wrong source string. Because of the way I extract these preliminary translations from the existing translations, if the "grouping" of the HTML in the translation doesn't match the grouping in English, things will go poorly. I had to break up a couple of longer paragraphs in German to match the paragraph breaks in English, for example.
> Then tomorrow I'll try to pull these translations again and see if I can feed them into git and push them from there into WordPress in order for them to show up on our website.

For example, I don't speak Finnish... but it's quite obvious that some of the strings were missing and that therefore the translations are not matching the source strings. For example "Hieman historian:" apparently is Finnish for string #17, "A bit of background", but it shows up as the translation of string #9...

/D
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