[OSM-dev] Using translatewiki for translations

[Minh Nguyen]

On 7/10/09 7:12 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>   On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab at gmail.com <mailto:avarab at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Richard
>     Fairhurst<richard at systemed.net <mailto:richard at systemed.net>> wrote:
>      > Potlatch uses the OSM wiki for localisation. I have no plans to
>     change this
>      > in favour of a third-party solution.
>     Perhaps we should look into using translatewiki, OpenLayers is
>     already using it:
>     http://translatewiki.net <http://translatewiki.net/>
>     http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenLayers/stats/trunk
>
> +1
> I'm not sure but I think different projects can share the same phrases
> and words (e.g., "log-in") on TranslateWiki. This helps make
> translations consistent across projects.

TranslateWiki does have a cross-referencing feature that tells you when 
a string has already appeared in another project, but I'm not sure if 
that's done automatically or manually.

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