{"id":446,"date":"2013-01-01T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=446"},"modified":"2014-07-28T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:41:14","slug":"happy-new-multilingual-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2013\/01\/happy-new-multilingual-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Multilingual Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"google_language_translator\" class=\"default-language-en\"><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve watched Neverendingo&#8217;s <a title=\"Neverending's codeswarm\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.neverendingo.de\/?p=248\" target=\"_blank\">awesome video<\/a>\u00a0you will have seen how the activity on UserBase suddenly ran wild, when the Translate extension came into being. \u00a0We regularly get new translators registering on <a title=\"UserBase\" href=\"http:\/\/userbase.kde.org\" target=\"_blank\">UserBase<\/a>, and more recently translators for <a href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\" target=\"_blank\">TechBase<\/a> are signing up. \u00a0It&#8217;s clear that we have a dedicated core of translators, but beyond that we had no indication of other activity. \u00a0With this in mind, I set out to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><![if !IE]><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Flydgate.org%2Fblogs%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FUB-Translation_Statistics.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" class=\"pdf\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"height:750px;width:500px;border:0\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/iframe><![endif]><!--[if IE]><object width=\"500\" height=\"750\" type=\"application\/pdf\" data=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/UB-Translation_Statistics.pdf\" class=\"pdf ie\">\n \n<div style=\"width:500;height:750;text-align:center;background:#fff;color:#000;margin:0;border:0;padding:0\">Unable to display PDF<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/UB-Translation_Statistics.pdf\">Click here to download<\/a><\/div>\n \n<\/object><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we learn from that?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few dedicated people have translated a considerable number of pages to a very high degree. \u00a0Bear in mind that there is no indication of how long any translator has been working. \u00a0There is at least one example of a fairly new translator that has done a great deal of work in a short time.<\/li>\n<li>There are a surprising number of pages translated to between 31% and 79%.<\/li>\n<li>It appears that some translators work hard on a few pages only, maybe for a particular project.<\/li>\n<li>Sadly, there are a few people that sign up, often for one of the less well-known languages, but do little or no translating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should also be noted that LTR (left-to-right) languages have not been well supported in Mediawiki, although there is some progress with this, which goes some way to explain lack of pages in those languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And what of TechBase?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Translation on <a href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\" target=\"_blank\">TechBase<\/a> is much newer. \u00a0It&#8217;s not always relevant to translate pages, particularly if they are written for use by a small, one-language team. \u00a0It&#8217;s encouraging, though, to see regular contributions to translations. \u00a0Here are the statistics for TechBase:<\/p>\n<p><![if !IE]><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Flydgate.org%2Fblogs%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2FTB-Translation_Statistics.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" class=\"pdf\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"height:750px;width:500px;border:0\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/iframe><![endif]><!--[if IE]><object width=\"500\" height=\"750\" type=\"application\/pdf\" data=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TB-Translation_Statistics.pdf\" class=\"pdf ie\">\n \n<div style=\"width:500;height:750;text-align:center;background:#fff;color:#000;margin:0;border:0;padding:0\">Unable to display PDF<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TB-Translation_Statistics.pdf\">Click here to download<\/a><\/div>\n \n<\/object><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>So finally, I want to thank everyone for this tremendous effort, and let&#8217;s make 2013 even greater!<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2011\/06\/make-it-easy-for-yourself\/userbaselogo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/UserBaseLogo.png\" alt=\"UserBaseLogo\" width=\"204\" height=\"64\" 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