Hi Pratik,
I think starting a new thread in the Discussion (Talk) page
would do more good.
Tony Thomas <http://tttwrites.in>
FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in>
*"where there is a wifi,there is a way"*
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Pratik Lahoti <pr4tiklah...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Pratik Lahoti <pr4tiklah...@gmail.com
> >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>
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