[libreoffice-website] Re: Update on Drupal Website Progress

Le 2010-11-22 21:10, Michael Wheatland a écrit :
> Thanks all for the input to this concept.
>
> I just wanted to clarify a couple of points:
>
> 1. Localisation teams will still exist in an ecosystem along side the
> development, design, marketing groups.
>     All communications in these groups will be in native languages, but
> others can also contribute to them using auto-translations.
>     Not ideal, but we don't have enough translators to get them to
> translate every conversation on the site.
>
> 2. As mentioned before the main site will be structured the same way
> for all languages. English is not the default translate to-from
> language, it is the simply the fallback if a translation is not
> available.
> ie. if someone in china accesses a page originally written in french
> with no other translations available it will display in french. If an
> english translation is available it will display in english. If there
> is a chinese translation available it will display in chinese.
>
> In terms of the Q&A section, I would expect that there will be a
> knowledge base of manually translated questions and answers along side
> an ad-hoc section which would be automatically translated. Quality
> ad-hoc questions when answered could be moved to the knowledge base
> section then manually translated for accuracy. The concept is fluid at
> the moment, so if you would like to see any other features please let
> us know.
>
> Michael Wheatland

Hmmm. Yes, a lot of work and detail will have to go into this 
implementation as well as crucial tests and discussions on tolerance 
limits (how much of an accuracy rate will we accept).

I was thinking that if we were serious enough about this, that we could 
try to involve the services of the Google translation team. With a 
potential user base of approximately 110 million users, this may get 
them interested in this part of the project. I am sure that there is a 
certain amount of repeated sentences that over time we could have a 
greater refinement of automatic translation specifically tailored to the 
LibreOffice group; this would presumably increase the accuracy % by 
quite a bit.

Marc


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