Translations for Cloudron

[marcusquinn]

@eriktad perhaps something we could seed populate for all languages with our translation engine? (900 words wouldn't cost anything)

[imc67]

@nebulon said in Translations for Cloudron:

Dutch

I can do the Dutch version!

[ei8fdb]

Edit: I've modified the link below as it seems the embedded is being blocked

@girish @nebulon If it helps, I've put this quick survey together to gather some quant data for languages spoken:

https://saneuxdesign.survey.fm/what-languages-are-spoken-by-cloudron-users

If your language is not listed there, you can add it in the "other" field. If there's a need I'll update the list with new languages.

The data can be shared publicly to give an idea of %'s of languages spoken.

[nebulon]

@ei8fdb I seem to be getting a :Page Not Found" in the iframe there?

[girish]

@ei8fdb I installed the poll plugin on this forum for you if you want to give it a try (make a separate post somwhere). This is the plugin I installed - https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll . There is a button in the new post dialog (looks like a graph), if you click it, it brings up a poll window.

[ei8fdb]

@girish Thanks for doing that. I did try it - the only issue is the poll doesn't have an option for the participant to an other option, and so all languages would need to be listed from the beginning.

(I've changed the link abive to link directly to the survey)

[ei8fdb]

Results so far:

If you'd like to contribute your answer, you can fill out the 2 question survey.

[ei8fdb]

@girish @nebulon These are the results so far. There's been no new data since the Nov 19th.

I'll leave the survey open in case more people reply.

Hope that's useful!

[nebulon]

@ei8fdb thanks that is useful. We will ship Cloudron 6 with only English and German as fully translated. This is only because those are the languages we at Cloudron speak
However once version 6 is out, it supports downloading new languages and translations without update, so essentially once a Cloudron is then updated to version 6 then everyone can help out with translation for the rest

[imc67]

@nebulon can we already start with translating as it might take some time? (Dutch/nl)

[luckow]

To give an idea: the whole translation is done while playing a 10 episode netflix series. After this process you need 3 times 2 hours to make the translation consistent and correct your own typos.

If you want to translate in a team, start with guidelines.For German we have decided to translate according to these guidelines:

• be inclusive & friendly
• avoid to gender. try to find better terms
• if gender is needed use the "*" format
• only translate widly used tech terms. if there is no, don't translate
• in the german language we make a difference between formal and informal salutation. Try to avoid direct salutation.
• put often used terms in the glossary
• as long as necessary but short in focus

[ei8fdb]

@nebulon Glad it's useful.

We will ship Cloudron 6 with only English and German as fully translated. This is only because those are the languages we at Cloudron speak

Yup that makes sense.

However once version 6 is out, it supports downloading new languages and translations without update

Great, and the translations will be managed on weblate? I'd like to help with Spanish localisation.

[ei8fdb]

Thanks @luckow these are good recommendations and advice about the process, particularly:

• be inclusive & friendly
• avoid to gender. try to find better terms. if gender is needed use the "*" format

I am not familar with * format?

• in the german language we make a difference between formal and informal salutation. Try to avoid direct salutation

This does bring up a question: what tone does Cloudron.io want Cloudron to have? Serious? Scary? Helpful? Friendly?

• as long as necessary but short in focus

this can be hard

Doing localisation so everybody can understand is a whole expertise in itself - I am not an expert, but I do try to contribute from the users perspective, and it's important to remember that not all Cloudron users are technology professionals!

It is also important to mention - in some languages there are no words for concepts like security/privacy/encryption - these are not cultural concepts. For the first first languages, this probably won't be a big issue.

Here is a set of glossaries created by Localisation Lab, a great organisation who do localisation work for a lot of open source projects and "technical" projects with their community of native speakers.

https://www.localizationlab.org/glossaries

It has glossaries for many "technical" terms in many languages, for example in Spanish:

attachment - adjunto
database - base de datos
decryption - descifrado
default server - Servidor predeterminado

Here are the glossaries for:
Spanish, French, and Dutch.

[luckow]

@ei8fdb said in Translations for Cloudron:

I am not familar with * format?

I give a concrete example. It's possible to translate owner into the german word Besitzer. But in this case a masculine word is choosen. There is also a translation into Besitzerin possible. And Besitzerin is the female version of Besitzer. In our time and in discussions about an inclusive and gender-sensitive understanding, it is good to choose a "format" for how to deal with both versions of the "same" translation.

• Besitzer/in
• Besitzer & Besitzerinnen
• sometimes Besitzer, sometimes Besitzerin
• Besitzer*in

In that case we chose Besitzerin as the "" format.

[ei8fdb]

@luckow Aha thanks. I studied German for 6 (7?) years in school (Entschuldigung, wie komme ich am bestem zum Bahnhof bitte?!) and university, but I think I missed that lesson.

[vjvanjungg]

just did the survey. where can we begin?

[ei8fdb]

@vjvanjungg here's what @nebulon said about Translations for Cloudron:

We will ship Cloudron 6 with only English and German as fully translated. This is only because those are the languages we at Cloudron speak
However once version 6 is out, it supports downloading new languages and translations without update, so essentially once a Cloudron is then updated to version 6 then everyone can help out with translation for the rest

Hope that helps.

[vjvanjungg]

@ei8fdb ha.. i missed that thanks—will wait then

[ei8fdb]

@ei8fdb said in Translations for Cloudron:

Results so far:

If you'd like to contribute your answer, you can fill out the 2 question survey.

20 responses as of today.

[girish]

Who is the second tamilian in this forum ? (I am one of them, though I am not of any use with translations since I can only speak and sort of read and hardly write...).