[wp-hackers] GSoC2014's Idea

[Marko Heijnen]

Hey,

Sorry for the late response. I’m just seeing this e-mail. We already include a plugin to enable Google translate and I’m not seeing what you want to add here.

Best,

Marko


Op 18 Feb 2014, om 15:02 heeft 张卓 <z950803 at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Dear friend,
> It is my pleasure to write here for you.I want to apply GsoC2014 and work
> for GlotPress.
> 
>> GlotPress <http://trac.glotpress.org/> is a web-based collaborative
>> translation tool. It is a web alternative to poEdit and the rest desktop
>> gettext editing tools. Code-wise GlotPress is based on BackPress and a tiny
>> MVC layer on top of it. The project will be to add functionality to
>> GlotPress:
>> 
>>   - fuzzy strings -- probably the most interesting part -- new strings
>>   should be matched with old ones. If they are similar enough the old one
>>   should be updated instead of inserting a new string.
>>   - tags -- users should be able to tag strings in addition to some
>>   machine tags (for example all strings in the admin panel should be tagged
>>   wp-admin)
>>   - comments for translations
>> 
>> But I think it's a little difficult for me and I have other idea:
> I think the plugin will make developers easlier translate themes and
> plugins into other languages and make uesrs  use themes and plugins in
> their languages easliy.The project will be to add functionality to
> GlotPress:
> 
>   - Creating a language packs including the common words in Wordpress.
>   - Introduced automatic translation.
> 
> Lots of themes and plugins only use English.It's difficult for
> other-language novices,but it's also difficult and boring to translate them
> into other languages for developers. I tried to use Poedit to translate a
> theme,and excessive quantities and tedious process make me know how
> difficult it is.In this process I found Google Translate can almost
> correctly translate 50% at least,and others about 20% are common
> professional words.
> The plugins will prvoide new functions that is automatic translate,check
> and change mistakes easliy of themes and plugins for developers and users.
> Please forgive my mistakes in this email,because I'm a Chinese and bad at
> English.^_^
> Thank you and look forward to your feedbacks and suggestions.
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