allow comments and discussions to be translatable
Pirate Praveen
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In "Pirate Movement of India", our members are native speakers of many languages. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status_in_India)
In a recent discussion one member had to use their mother tongue so that they can clearly express their idea - https://www.loomio.org/d/tu97i2az/loksabha-elections-2014 But that would automatically exclude people who speak other languages but can understand English. In this case I manually translated all comments in Malayalam to English and posted as my comments. I would like loomio to be able to allow this as a feature ie, each text content needs to be translatable so that anyone can offer translations and people can choose their preferred languages to communicate.
Richard D. Bartlett Wed 5 Feb 2014 8:00PM
Amazing work @jameskiesel!
Here's a Portuguese-speaking group to test it on: Partido Pirata do Brasil.
Pirate Praveen Thu 6 Feb 2014 4:28AM
@mixirving Thanks for the quick turn around! Currently I cannot test it because 'Malayalam' is not listed in the language selector. Also I couldn't access the link you shared.
Pirate Praveen Thu 6 Feb 2014 4:35AM
@richarddbartlett thanks for this link, I can see the translate option! This is super cool! Though I still have to wait to do a real translation :(
Jesse Doud Thu 6 Feb 2014 9:32AM
@jameskiesel! The beauty of this feature is only outdone by that of its creator.
mix irving Fri 7 Feb 2014 2:09AM
@praveenarimbrathod if you'd like to see translation of the app into Malayalam, feel free to help out
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/loomio-1/language/ml/
let me know if you want help setting up.
unfortunately for automated comment translation, we need a service provider which allows calls to be translated from Malayalam.
At the moment we are using Bing Translator, and we have researched Google Translator too. Neither of these support Malayalam. Do you know of a service which does support translation?
Pirate Praveen Fri 7 Feb 2014 11:12AM
@mixirving thanks for the transifex link, I started translating loomio to Malayalam. But I don't think it is a good idea to restrict comment translation only to languages where loomio itself is translated.
At the moment we don't have a good automatic translation service. We'll be happy to do manual translations for now, if that can be activated.
mix irving Sun 9 Feb 2014 10:49PM
thanks for the feedback @praveenarimbrathod , rest assured we are building like crazy. I've just added the feature to our development backlog here : https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/65435476
unless we have an outside contributor build this additional functionality. it might be a little time before we can get to it. In the meantime, you might have to add translations as separate comments.
I see you've already made a contribution to the Malayalam translation, that's awesome. please let me know if you have any questions about that process. If the translation gets to 40% we'll launch the language in experimental mode so you can see what your work looks like in app. Thanks for your awesome work
Pirate Praveen Mon 10 Feb 2014 5:40PM
@mixirving we are already 40%! looking forward to using loomio in Malayalam and being able to translate comments in Malayalam!
mix irving Mon 10 Feb 2014 9:53PM
amazing work on the translation!
@praveenarimbrathod, I sent you a message on Transifex, but for anyone else following along, you can check out the progress so far by visiting www.loomio.org/d/2WiJqSN4?locale=ml
if you want to change you language back, remember the language selector is at the bottom left of this page!
mix irving · Wed 5 Feb 2014 7:26AM
@praveenarimbrathod this current solution works by detecting the preferred language of the viewer with the preferred language of the original commenter.
At the moment, logged preferences have to be one of the translated languages found in the language selector. This can be improved but will take some time