To be honest: the site is a huge disappointment. I found 7..8 words or
<br>
strings which required work in a couple of minutes on Github. It took me
<br>
longer to find just one on the wiki. What's worse is that the same word or
<br>
string shows up multiple times and as far as translation is concerned a
<br>
real bummer is that you're completely missing the context, which is the
<br>
reason why at least one of those strings is incorrectly translated.
<br>
Understanding the context is very important to make a correct translation.
<br>
Maybe programmers need a bit of education in this area ;-).
<br>
Example: "Map Key" is meant as "key for the map" ("Legend" might have been
<br>
a better choice) but is translated as "toets toewijzen", which means to
<br>
"map a key" (from a keybord), which is also a correct translation, but
<br>
obviously not in this context.
<br>
<br>
In short, I just wanted you to know that I'm not going to work with this
<br>
tool. I'll just do the few things I had in mind, but that's it. It may be
<br>
the best choice for automated generation of multi-lingual GUIs, but it's a
<br>
pain in the * to work with for a translator. If people are walking away
<br>
from this wiki, I feel you should at least know why.
<br>
<br>
If I may give some advice: speed up the search engine and provide the
<br>
context (read only) of where the word or string is used (e.g. allow for
<br>
browsing through the area in Github where the text is used). That might
<br>
make a huge difference for the translator.
<br>
<br>
Kind regards,
<br>
Gilbert
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2 October 2013 01:01, Tom Hughes <notifications@github.com> wrote:
<br>
<br>
> Not sure (given that you closed the pull) if you have already worked this
<br>
> out, but translations need to be done through translatewiki - you can find
<br>
> details at
<br>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Website_Internationalization#How_to_translate
<br>
> .
<br>
>
<br>
> —
<br>
> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/499#issuecomment-25500046>
<br>
> .
<br>
>
<p style="font-size:small;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;color:#666;">—<br>Reply to this email directly or <a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/499#issuecomment-25570068'>view it on GitHub</a>.<img src='https://github.com/notifications/beacon/uTRSc6ihLa7Shf84BpiOpgLBkjxA0mLWSS-7T7onG2UI1GPWmy9Z9vDZxnprLfBC.gif' height='1' width='1'></p>