[OSM-talk] Request for translations of the upcoming new welcome page

[Kai Krueger]

As the welcome page will probably be merged fairly soon and then the normal
translatewiki based translation takes over again and my guess is there won't
be that many languages that get translated this way (it would be nice if the
main ones can be though) I would propose to just coordinating it here on
talk. I.e. just state which language you are planning on translating.

So far we have a German and Danish translation.

Kai


severin wrote
> Hi,
> 
> Do you have something (a wikipage, whatever) that allows to anyone to know
> who is taking charge of such language? I mean, it would be a pity if 2
> people translate the same page into the same language.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Severin
> 
> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:50:24 -0600
>> From: Kai Krueger <

> kakrueger@

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>> Subject: [OSM-talk] Request for translations of the upcoming new
>>         welcome page
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> It is planned that a new fresh set of welcome pages [1] will soon be
>> merged on osm.org thanks to the effort of a number of people. These
>> pages are designed to be a friendly and an easy introduction to osm.
>>
>> As these pages are one of the first things new mappers see and there
>> have been complaints about this in the past, we would like to try this
>> time and get as many translations as possible  done before this goes
>> live.
>>
>> It would be great if people could help out and make sure these are
>> translated to as many languages as possible.
>>
>> As the current translatewiki based system [2] is not setup to elicit
>> translations from pre-merge strings, it is unfortunately necessary to do
>> this outside of the normal translation system.
>>
>> The best way to do this is probably to fork the relevant source code on
>> github ( https://github.com/osmlab/openstreetmap-website/ in the
>> welcome-2 branch), and then edit your local language translation file.
>>
>> The English reference file is
>>
>> https://github.com/osmlab/openstreetmap-website/blob/welcome-2/config/locales/en.yml
>>
>> The main section that needs translating is the "welcome_page:" section.
>>
>> Once you have the translation you can send a pull request to get the
>> translation merged and ready for when it goes live.
>>
>> It is unfortunately a bit more effort, but hopefully worth it.
>>
>> If you are planning on working on a translation, you should probably
>> announce it here to coordinate and not cause duplicate effort.
>>
>> I am currently working on the German translation.
>>
>> Kai
>>
>>
>> [1] welcome.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org
>> [2] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap
>>
>>
>>
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