[Mediawiki-i18n] translatewiki OSM translation

Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 14:31:50 UTC 2010


On 7 April 2010 22:13, Mitja Kleider <mitja at kleider.name> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 07.04.2010, 18:05 +0000 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð
> Bjarmason:
>> However if your project is separate from the OSM website then it
>> should have its own subproject, just like Potlatch does now.
>
> Okay, that would be the case at the moment. However, I think the
> prefixes (like Nominatim's) and "detail names" (or however we could call
> it) can be shared by many applications and we should avoid duplicate
> translation effort for the same purpose.

Translatewiki.net offers translation memory (albeit simple). There is
no need to worry about duplicated effort. Instead, we should ensure
that the strings can be translated properly into all languages and are
accompanied with extensive translation hints.

 -Niklas


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Niklas Laxström



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