(addition below)
On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Timothy Falconer wrote:
Hi everyone,
We're translating most of the Squeakland (Etoys) website right now
into Spanish and Portuguese, with French soon to come.
You can help too . . . simply claim your language and reply to this
message (to avoid duplication), then read the following:
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-480
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-481
We're also writing some grants now, some of which are aimed at our
translation efforts.
Given this, I'm trying to determine a good translation priority
list, which shows the order of languages we want to focus on most.
Yes, we'll get translations first from people that volunteer, and
that won't always correspond to the priority list. But our time
(and future hopeful funds) are limited, so we'd like to concentrate
on the languages that will reach the most new and existing Etoys
users.
To get the conversation started, here are the most popular languages
in the world:
1. Chinese *
2. Spanish
3. English
4. Hindi *
5. Arabic *
6. Bengali *
7. Portuguese
8. Russian
9. Japanese
10. Korean
11. German
12. French
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
, and several other sources)
Perhaps more telling is this list, which shows the number of
wikipedia articles, which may be a better indicator of computer and
web use:
1. English
2. French
3. German
4. Spanish
5. Portuguese
6. Italian
7. Japanese
8. Russian
9. Dutch
10. Polish
11. Chinese
12. Swedish
(from http://s23.org/wikistats/wikipedias_html.php?sort=total_desc)
More direct to Etoys is our new list of "Squeakers", which has a
graph at the bottom that shows number of users by country:
1. United States (english/spanish)
2. Germany (german)
3. Uruguay (spanish)
4. Brazil (portuguese)
5. Canada (english/french)
6. Argentina (spanish)
7. Austria (german)
8. Spain (spanish)
9. Colombia (spanish)
10. Bolivia (spanish)
11. Japan (japanese)
12. Netherlands (dutch)
(from http://squeakland.org/squeakers/ ... add your name and country!)
Clearly, these languages merit special effort:
1. English
2. Spanish
3. German
4. Portuguese
5. French
And these represent known areas of Etoys use:
6. Japanese
7. Korean
8. Haitian Kreyol
9. Nepali
Three more to make a list of twelve:
10. Russian
11. Italian
12. Dutch
Do you agree with this list of twelve? What would you add? Where
would you put it in the list, and why?
We of course want to have all languages represented someday,
particularly the starred items in the first list.
We're simply trying to set our immediate goals, given limited time
and resources.
Ah yes, forgot another criteria ... existing Etoys translations:
1. ENGLISH
2. Tamil
3. Sinhala
4. GERMAN
5. Pashto
6. Greek
7. Dari
8. SPANISH
9. Russian
10. Bengali
11. Mongolian
12. FRENCH
13. Turkish
14. Swedish
15. HAITIAN KREYOL
16. JAPANESE
17. Chinese
18. PORTUGUESE
19. Vietnamese
20. KOREAN
21. Urdu
22. ITALIAN
23. DUTCH
24. NEPALI
25. Slovak
(from http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/etoys/)
The capitalized ones are in my list of twelve.
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