Hi,

So what you are actually saying is don't use it (for now)?

I had second thoughts about using the widget myself, not because I didn't need 
it but because it was version 0.97 and we are told to wait for a 1.0 release 
(pending since 2009). Also because of the strange state some of the related 
wiki pages were in due to edits made by 'Jjyy7772'. I've cleared those up.

Local CC groups would benefit from an abstracted technology infrastructure 
layer based on an extensive APIs that are then used by .org's own services. Why 
doesn't .org uses the license chooser they developed for others? Why has there 
been no API changes since january 2011? Hasn't the widget been changed since 
2009?

A good strategy/direction is to separate the close integration from code on the 
Creative Commons website with regards to the license chooser, metadata scraper, 
search engine, wordpress theme, etc. Develop an API that allows you to 
integrate these on any webpage and use that API on CreativeCommons.org itself. 
An 'eating your own dogfood' strategy works to keep API's up to date with a 
passive community that we have, but enables every re-user to do exactly the 
same things that creative commons.org can do. This then stimulated a community 
to work with the APIs or CC's infrastructure. 

Also if technology has little to no use, remove them or deprecate them. I spend 
an afternoon looking through different depositories, documents and Wikipages 
before I found what I needed. Lot's of that stuff is not been updated in 
months/years and it use if questionable.

Best,

Maarten Zeinstra

Kennisland | Knowledgeland

t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | s mzeinstra
www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org




On Mar 24, 2012, at 15:46 , Christopher Allan Webber wrote:

> Sorry for the delayed reply.
> 
> We recently overhauled the translation system.  Unfortunately I think
> the js widget strings may have gotten dropped (partly I think because
> we've thought that the js widget has gotten little use in recent years,
> but maybe that is wrong).  I can look at adding them back, and it's
> possible to re-code them in from the git history, but it might take a
> while till we can get to it...
> 
> Made an issue for it in our bugtracker!
> 
> http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/issue1033
> 
> - Chris
> 
> 
> Nathan Yergler <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Are you running the JavaScript locally?
>> 
>> Thinking about it some more, one thing that will probably be an
>> impediment to updating is the fact the the translation string keys
>> have changed since the last update, as well as where we store those
>> translations. So the code will probably need to be changed, as
>> well. That may be a pain.
>> 
>> It'd be nice if we could update the code so that anyone wanting to run
>> it locally could just check it out and run make to generate the
>> localized files.
>> 
>> On Mar 23, 2012 8:52 AM, "Maarten Zeinstra" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hi Nathan,
>> 
>>    Thanks for your fast reply!
>> 
>>    I am using the .97 version of the js widget. I thought it was due to our 
>> transfix strings, but these are up to date.
>>    If a cc-developer could run make again and mail and update, that would be 
>> great.
>> 
>>    Best,
>> 
>>    Maarten
>> 
>>    Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>> 
>>    t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | s mzeinstra
>>    www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org
>> 
>>    On Mar 23, 2012, at 16:48 , Nathan Yergler wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Maarten,
>>> 
>>> What version of the javascript are you using? Things may have changed
>>> in the past year since I left (although I doubt this has), but if it's
>>> 0.97, the translations are probably massively out of date. If I recall
>>> correctly there are two things needed: translating the string in
>>> Transifex, and regenerating the localized javascript on the server
>>> side. I suspect that string has been translated in Transifex, so the
>>> latter is the important part. Someone at CC will need to check out
>>> that code and run make as a first step.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Nathan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I wanted to include the cc js widget in one my project. The site is in 
>>>> Dutch
>>>> so I choose &locale=nl. The chooser was localizes in Dutch but the license
>>>> description was not as extensive as the english version.
>>>> 
>>>> with locale=us-en I get:
>>>> 
>>>> "This work is licensed under a x"
>>>> where x is the license name
>>>> 
>>>> In Dutch I get (translated to english):
>>>> "This work is licensed under Creative Commons license"
>>>> So with no license name.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I get this properly localized?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Maarten Zeinstra
>>>> 
>>>> Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>>>> 
>>>> t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | s mzeinstra
>>>> www.kennisland.nl | www.knowledgeland.org
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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