Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Wiki module created to save time for Calc function article translators

Hi,
Le 21/10/2022 à 16:37, Ilmari Lauhakangas a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> during LibreOffice conference 2022 I had a conversation with an Italian 
> translator. He said it would be nice to import Calc function name 
> translations into the translation memory of the wiki to speed things up. 
> I started thinking that it would be even better to automatically get the 
> correct translated name using a template or a widget. I quickly 
> understood a template would not be practical. A widget would require 
> modifying the page content with Javascript, which is always a bit 
> awkward and also slows down the page load.
>
> While researching the topic, I ran into an extension that enables the 
> use of Lua programming language to have essentially a much nicer 
> template syntax: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
>
> I set up a local MediaWiki instance to develop the Calc function name 
> module and now Guilhem kindly enabled the extension in TDF wiki.
>
> The module is called in wiki content like so:
>
> {{#invoke:Calc_fn_name|get|IF|{{#translation:}}}}
>
> It calls the module, a function inside it and passes arguments for the 
> Calc function name and the language code. Conveniently the 
> {{#translation:}} magic word allows us to automatically pass the correct 
> language code.
>
> The module code can be examined here:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Module:Calc_fn_name
>
> I will gradually put the module to use in the coming weeks. I have a 
> Firefox Greasemonkey script to automate replacing the names in content 
> when editing an article.
>
> Using the module will allow removing many repeating strings from 
> translation. These function strings which occur on their own are usually 
> in the beginning and end of the Calc function articles as well as within 
> tables showing examples.
>
> When a function name occurs inside a paragraph, any existing 
> translations will be marked as outdated. It is not necessary to copy & 
> paste the module invocation syntax to the existing translations in this 
> case. It is enough to just confirm the already translated paragraph.
>
> Steve is working on updating articles, but he does not need to worry 
> about the module syntax. I will take care of everything when I 
> eventually mark the new articles for translation.
>
> As the first tries, I changed these pages:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions/List_of_Functions
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions/ABS
>
> As mentioned, when you see outdated translations in your language for 
> the ABS article, just confirm them, no need to copy the module syntax.
>
> I will wait for a bit before continuing, so let me know if there are any 
> issues. I will also reach out to individual translators, who already 
> worked on the articles.

That is really great, thanks a lot Ilmari for your work on it and 
implementing it so quickly :)
Cheers
Sophie


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