Having worked with translators and translations on technical matters I found that the best translations were done by a native speaker who worked in the subject area. When you try and translate a technical subject you first have to understand the subject matter. I once spent two hours explaining the meanings of two lines of English to a senior translator who wasn't happy with the quality of the initial translation.
In the end he accepted that the technical people all worked in English and we would just do a sentence by sentence translational to the second language that was essentially meaningless to satisfy a manager it had been done. It can be very difficult especially nuances. Cheerio John On 27 January 2015 at 18:51, Kate Chapman <kate.chap...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Hi Althio, > > That is the original aim of transifex, but there are projects that use it > to manage documentation translation as well. It is used for the InaSAFE > documentation for example(1). The upside to it is it is very easy to get > translators started and tracking of changes works well. The downside is > many people don't like doing the translations as individual strings. > > Perhaps someone from HOT-id can mention their thoughts on this, since you > are the ones most familiar with the process. > > Best, > > -Kate > > (1) http://inasafe.org/ > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:17 PM, althio <althio.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Russell, Cristiano, >> >> As far as I know transifex: it is intended to translate and keep >> up-to-date strings that are used possibly several times in software code. >> It seems less useful to tackle entire pages of unique text with headings >> and context and flow and images. >> >> It is mentioned at least here in the IRC transcript >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Meetings/TrainingWG/27_October_2014 >> >> Any thoughts welcome. >> >> althio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > > -- > Kate Chapman > Executive Director > email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org > U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834 > Indonesian mobile: +62 82123068370 > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hot.openstreetmap.org> | twitter <http://twitter.com/hotosm> > | facebook <http://facebook.com/hotosm> | donate > <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/donate> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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