an idea for Source: fork / translate / pull request

[Miguel Paz]

Speaking with Gregor, a friend from Datawrapper, who we will help
transtalate Datawrapper to spanish, I saw how they are managing their
translation efforts using Github and Poedit (an awesome translation tool)
and this idea came up to me.

Since Source showcases code and content about best code and journalism
practices and it`s pushing hard to have great "how to`s" with everything
hosted in Github wouldn`t it be great that every code and content in Source
included the call to action: translate this to your language (and earn open
badges by the way)

To do it simple and facilitate the job for the translator volunteer, when
you click on *translate this to your language* Source would need to provide
the
language document needed to be translated to spanish (see example of
Datawrapper:
https://github.com/datawrapper/datawrapper/blob/master/locale/es_ES/messages.po
Option download the raw language document needed to be translated to
spanish:
https://raw.github.com/datawrapper/datawrapper/master/locale/es_ES/messages.po

invite the user to download latest version of Poedit (it`s free) from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poedit
/files/latest/download?source=recommended

Open it in Poedit and start translating.

When finished: pull request to Source :)

What do you think?


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[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Hey Miguel,

have you looked into Transifex? The nice thing about L10n is that people
who don't know pull/push/fork stuff can also do it - and Transifex is an
open-source platform that tries to make a nice workflow around this. Maybe
Source could link out to it?

https://www.transifex.com/

Cheers,

- Friedrich

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[Miguel Paz]

Awesome Friedrich, I did not know of Transifex. Thanks

2012/11/11 Friedrich Lindenberg <frie...@pudo.org>