Hi, Just a quick note to say that the Open Knowledge Foundation is already successfully crowdsourcing translations for several projects, including Annotator, CKAN, Open Data Handbook or OpenSpending via Transifex. I personally find it an excellent platform:
https://www.transifex.com Cheers, Adrià On 15 March 2013 06:25, Mohammed Saleh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All > Crowdsourcing translations is really a powerful tool , we are currently > using it to translate openfoodfacts.org into Arabic ....let's start the work > here ! > > Regards > Mohammed Hashim > ________________________________ > From: Christian Villum <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:38 > > Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic > > Hi Heath, > > Welcome to the list, good to have you here! > > Crowdsourcing translations could surely be a way to go. If anyone out there > would be interested in engaging in such activity, please dive into this > conversation. > > -Christian > > > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:45:34 -0500 > From: heath rezabek <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Translating into Arabic > To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <cajudfhk7curaixrv5unsephzsjuqxjdmbzzwwoi21vry-bu...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > There seem to be a few projects around to apply crowdsourcing techniques to > translation; I wonder if any of these platforms are open to OKfn > collaboration, or if this would make sense as a way to optimize resources... > > One example is MonoTrans: > http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/monotrans/ > > (By the way hello all, and thanks to Sam for pointing me to the -discuss > list. Just starting out in involvement w/OKfn, but excited!) > > - Heath > > On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Christian Villum wrote: > >>> Dear All >>> ? >>> ??? I wonder if any one here who speaks Arabic and would like to >>> translate the OFKN >>> ?? into Arabic ? >>> ? >>> ? >>> Regards >>> ? >>> Mohammed Hashim >> > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
