[Localization] OLPC website translation

[Chris Leonard]

Walter,

I would be very interested in seeing the PERL scripts and makefiles, if they
could be made available.  I can usually hack my way out of a paper
bag in PERL if I have my copy of the llama book nearby.  I'm not interested
in taking on web-master duties for www.laptop.org.  I really hope someone
internal will take up that, it's a significant lost opportunity to
demonstrate competence at content translation management if that site is
left in it's current state, I would however be willing to discuss/share
ideas with someone who wants to take on that task.  I'm not likely to
undertake moving all the content from User:Felice space either, but at least
I can see it there.

I am mostly interested in documenting full process of content generation
from scraping text (probably wget) to simple HTML markup to i18N version of
markup + .pot file to localized versions.  I'm hoping to harvest some good
basic health content from sites like UNESCO, WHO and NIH where the content
quality and copyright-free status is unquestionable and primary issue is
reduced to i18n/l10n.  I have more than adequate grasp of subject matter and
I'm married to a professional medical writer, it's the ill-defined techy
bits that are the barrier for me at this point.

Sayamindu, thanks for the offer of the POT files, I may take you up on it,
but at this point, I can see enough examples on the wiki to answer my
questions about valid POT format creation.  I may well have questions about
validating POT files or importing POT into Pootle at some point, but I'm
just walking this step-by-step for now and trying to document as I go along,
so I'm trying to take small bites.

cjl


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes. I had some Perl scripts and Makefiles I used to autogenerate the
> website from the .PO files. I hadn't finished moving the system over
> to Poodle before I left OLPC. I tried to hand off the system to OLPC
> but there was no response to my offer.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  The POT files for the website are autogenerated by some Perl scripts.
> >  I think Walter might be able to provide more information on this. If
> >  you want the current POT files, I can send them to you.
> >  Thanks,
> >  Sayamindu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  > Maybe a shorter and more straightforward question to ask is this.
> >  >
> >  > If you go to www.laptop.org and click on the language tab, you can
> see
> >  > multiple "localized" versions of the OLPC main web-site.  If you go
> into
> >  > Pootle, you can see .po files for the OLPC web-site.
> >  >
> >  > Does anyone know where I can find the "internationalized" version of
> the
> >  > OLPC web-site and some details on how you take the .po files and the
> >  > internationalized version and generate the multiple localized
> versions?
> >  >
> >  > I've looked around the translating the wiki pages and I haven't found
> a link
> >  > to the internationalized backbone file for www.laptop.org.  It would
> really
> >  > help me to be able to see the page source for that.
> >  >
> >  > Any pointers would be appreciated.
> >  >
> >  > cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
> >  >
> >  > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Cjl
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> >  >
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Sayamindu Dasgupta
> >  [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
> >
>
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