[Localization] OLPC website translation

[Walter Bender]

I will be going over the scripts with Henry Hardy at OLPC tomorrow.
Hopefully he'll turn my quick and dirty hacks into something a bit
more sustainable.

-walter

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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