On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:07 AM, pankaj malhotra <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the delayed response. > I went through the translation procedures adapted by wordpress , > ubuntu(launchpad) , they have an active community of translators and provide > their .po files. > I also tried to translate a .pot file for limesurvey > http://www.limesurvey.org/translationstatus/limesurvey.pot > using poedit and went through a style guide on hindi language by microsoft . > went through some research papers and documents for measuring of translation > quality index (TQI) and other ways to rank the quality of translations. > i also had a talk with the scholars in the linguistic department of our > college and have started preparing a preliminary proposal , which i will > mail you soon . >
Thanks a lot for going through the processes > one thing that i wanted to ask is that i found number of ways to rank the > translation quality while going through different documents , so had a doubt > that will the scoring mechanism be provided by the community as the style > guide or i need to develop a scoring mechanism also that would validate the > strings. > In ubuntu specifically, the translations lead used a script to get the translation stats and calculate the ranking based on completeness of a translation and validation is generally done by translation team and wrt quality, the translation suggestions on launchpad are matched against the translation guidelines set by the team. See: http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/stats/ubuntu-12.10-translation-stats.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Stats#UbuntuTranslationStatistics https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations-stats Maybe Runa can provide her inputs here. > since my exams are going on so cannot be that much active on irc channel but > will surely put best of my potential once exams are over in a few days , > and will work hard to complete the project. > No Problems as long as the motivation factor is going Regards, -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi _______________________________________________ Project-ideas mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in
