Hi everyone, On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Pratik Lahoti <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello everyone! > > I am Pratik Lahoti (User:BPositive) from Pune, India. I am willing to > participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. I am interested in the > project titled - "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki > content<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014#Tools_for_mass_migration_of_legacy_translated_wiki_content> > ". > > My mentors for this project would be Niklas > Laxström<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom>and Federico > Leva <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis>. > > With their help, I have drafted the first version of my proposal page. You > can find it here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools > > Brief overview of the project: > > The MediaWiki Translate > extension<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>makes the task > of translation easier by providing a user-friendly interface > that consists of text strings splitted into translation units. > Non-translatable content like images are excluded from the process of > translation. Though that makes the job easy with a rich editor supporting > various languages, a lot of effort is required to prepare the page for > translation, i.e, the page under question first needs to be converted into > a format that would be recognized by the Translate extension. The process > of preparing the page for translation needs to take into consideration > various > markups<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#markup>which > becomes a tedious task when done manually. Plus, wikis have a lot of > legacy content that still needs to be made translatable. > > Thus, with this motivation, the project aims to facilitate this conversion > and thereby save manual time and effort. The tool developed would thus make > the page translatable, and once that is done, it would import the > translations (which were present before the page was made translatable) > into the Translate extension. Thus, the entire process of importing > translations which involved a significant amount of manual task gets > automated by this project. > > The proposal page mentions the Project Outline and the approach/solution > towards the problem statement. I am done with most of the sections and left > with the Project Schedule (which I will finish off when everything is > finalized). > > Please have a look at the proposal and give your valuable > feedback/suggestions. While I have no problems in replying to the > suggestions put forth over here, I would appreciate if you can do the same > on the discussion > page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Translate/Mass_migration_tools>of > the proposal, so that all the feedback is at one single place. > > Looking forward to the inputs from the community. > > -- > Warm Regards, > *Pratik Lahoti* > User:BPositive <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive> > > I had sent a mail earlier, asking the community to have a look at the proposal page. But I din't get any feedback in the past 3 to 4 days. I know, feedback is much faster on running code, but it would be great if my proposal page attracts some eyeballs, as the student registration is going to start in a few hours time. Looking forward to hearing your views. -- Warm Regards, *Pratik Lahoti* User:BPositive <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BPositive> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
