IQSS
Language files outdated
Dear Dataverse Community, I am writing (even dublicating) here since the GlobalDataverseCommunity seems paused the development of the language packs.
we just installed Dataverse at Bonn University (Germany) as a test-repository. Unfortunately, German translations (and probably many other languages, since last commits seem to be far in the past).
We helped ourselves using existing file and Google translations (which does not work bad at all). Therefore, I have some questions to this community:
- Is the repository still maintained, or are other translation activities out there?
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- We are ready to share our file (keeping in mind that some translations may still be odd due to automatic procedure). In that case, would you like to let me update the German version of the file, or I can send it to you.
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- Are you interested in our strategy for (semi) (auto) translating the files? It would take around 30 minutes for a language to complete, the accuracy can be further improved later. Here is the Google sheet I used to translate. It is probably self-explanatory, but I can also provide support in understanding the procedure. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15BW2MH5nJz_RAtiAmWBp3xt4RVNf9z5YF2mAEWvMKgQ/edit#gid=832324258
PS: In my opinion, sooner or later we will not be able to maintain such projects manually (more than 2500 keys have to be considered in dozens of languages) and should anyway accept using automatic procedures, if we want to keep this up-to-date. The Google algorithms are getting amazingly better and better. We could even think about some automatic procedure using their API and just send deltas to users for final corrections. Tell me if you are interested in creating something like that.
Hi @sergejzr, we are planning to use this Weblate instance to keep translations for Dataverse up-to-date: https://weblate-sshoc.cessda.eu. Please let us know if your institution is interested to update all German properties.
Hi @sergejzr, we are planning to use this Weblate instance to keep translations for Dataverse up-to-date: https://weblate-sshoc.cessda.eu. Please let us know if your institution is interested to update all German properties.
Hi Vyacheslav, this is a great movement. I am not yet familiar with the platform, however it looks very promising. Yes we would like to contribute to German translations. We will have to solve it anyway for our University. We are a team, where 2-3 people would be busy with translations (could also hire students, if needed) Sergej
Hi @sergejzr, do you have some resources to keep German translation up-to-date? We're about to release "Archive in a box" with multiple languages support.
Hi Vyacheslav, sorry for my answer to be delayed so much! We spend the last month in preparation and tests and are now at the moment, where we would go productive with our dataverse.
Yes, we (University Bonn, Germany) would like to volunteer for keeping German translations up-to date. I am just looking for more demand and workload share in this regard (as currently more than 1500 keys need to be translated/updated).
We developed a simple workflow for doing translations, partially supported by google translate. This helps us to generate files that at least do not lead to a dataverse crash. I think, this more simple, effective and faster than weblate can be used also for other languages.
Please, tell me, whether your request is still valid and how to proceed further.
This helps us to generate files that at least do not lead to a dataverse crash.
@poikilotherm just mentioned this crash. @sergejzr if it's easy to reproduce, can you please create an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues ? (Or does it only crash in Docker? 🤔 ) Thanks for volunteering to translate! 🎉
