Firefox 2 glossary attempt on the web

[Axel Hecht]

Hi,

I whacked something together that I would call a glossary, and I wonder
what you guys think about it.

http://l10n.mozilla.org/~axel/glossary/ is the app,
http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2007/10/30/firefox-2-glossary/ is the blog
post about it.

You should be able to search in the phrases, see which show up often,
and then search on mxr on where they show up in en-US.

Thoughts?

Axel

[Hendrik Maryns]

Axel Hecht uitte de volgende tekst op 10/30/2007 12:21 PM:

Even after reading the blog, I have no idea what this is supposed to be
used for. Care to elaborate?

One remark though: the sorting in ‘Length’ is wrong: it is alphabetical,
but should be numerical.

H.
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[Axel Hecht]

Hendrik Maryns wrote:
> Axel Hecht uitte de volgende tekst op 10/30/2007 12:21 PM:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I whacked something together that I would call a glossary, and I wonder
>> what you guys think about it.
>>
>> http://l10n.mozilla.org/~axel/glossary/ is the app,
>> http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2007/10/30/firefox-2-glossary/ is the blog
>> post about it.
>>
>> You should be able to search in the phrases, see which show up often,
>> and then search on mxr on where they show up in en-US.
>
> Even after reading the blog, I have no idea what this is supposed to be
> used for. Care to elaborate?
>
> One remark though: the sorting in ‘Length’ is wrong: it is alphabetical,
> but should be numerical.

Yeah, I know. I just found out that it was dead easy to solve, exhibit
for the win. Thus, marking FIXED.

Regarding the use case, I wanted to find out which strings and phrases
are actually important to get right for consistency. So far, this is
getting some of the plain combinatorics right, which applications
actually make sense in the end is somewhat more tricky.

So right now, when you see a string and you're not sure if you should
bother about it, you can search for it, see how often it shows up, and
search the source.

For more elaborate tools, you could use that database to power search
suggest, for example.

A similar tool has been made by the Persian team, also working on
exhibit, but on a different dataset, is
http://www.mozillafirefox.ir/translation/glossary.html.

I'm really open to RFEs and to see what other people think that can be
done with the data, or which data should be gathered to do something useful.

Axel