I have been working with GlotPress for translating Elgg. I have customised
the format list and added and Elgg option to the product. I think it would
be great if we could offer a localization portal for Elgg where
translations into other languages are created as a collaborative effort (in
perfect social networking style). Elgg could then come with a number of
"official" translations rather than having to rely on plugins here and
there.

In case you're new to it, this is an example of a GlotPress installation,
used for the localization of WordPress.

http://translate.wordpress.com/

I'd be happy to share code and help with the set-up of this.

Federico

As it looks like that this project can start as independent and later be
integrated with elgg portal, I believe you can simply go and do it. If this
project could be able to handle not just elgg core, but 3rd party plugins
too, value of it is more than clear. Do you have an idea how language packs
from 3rd party plugins could appear in your system?

Hi there,

I am working on setting up the translation portal. I am making some changes
to the original GlotPress on two fronts (1) make it more effective for end
users in general, allowing more control on database than product offers in
subversion (2) strong integration of Elgg language stuff into the core.

Yes, the idea is that both core and plugins can be managed by a single
installation of the product, so anyone can really just use it for their own
plugins and then whoever would like to translate can do from one
centralised portal for anybody's use.

Will post again when I have it up and running... shouldn't be long ;-)

My GlotPress hack is at https://github.com/fmestrone/GlotPress

I have it up and running... :-)

it's at this address <http://elggtranslate.comze.com/>, read here for more
info<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/elgg-development/...>
.

How to register/login to it?

Hi there,

If you go to the website now, you should be able to register.

Fed

Finally I had found a moment to take a look at it. My first impression is
positive, I even consider to get local installation to manage translations
of our local Elgg modifications. We'll see how it works.

It could be good if more ppl took a look at what you had done. It is also
interesting how this project fits with efforts of other folks + evaluation
of chances to make it part of elgg community portal. If you haven't done
that yet, you could try to introduce this project in elgg's community site.
Hopefully it is more active than this group.

Thanks for your positive feedback, I'll def try the community.

Have you checked out the Language Packs plugin I created to go with the
portal? http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1095926/1.0/language-packs

Let me know what you think...

Fed