Translations on Og Maciel's Journal

The End For Pylyglot

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:20:00 +0000

Background

It was around 2005 when I started doing translations for Free and Open-Source Software. Back then I was warmly welcomed to the Ubuntu family and quickly learned all there was to know about using their Rosetta online tool to translate and/or review existing translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language. I spent so much time doing it, even during working hours, that eventually I sort of "made a name for myself" and made my way up to the upper layers of the Ubuntu Community echelon.

Pylyglot: Open Source Translation Search

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I wrote about Pylyglot, my translation searching tool that I use whenever I translate open source applications. Have not heard about Pylyglot? Read the About page for more info!

The reasons for the long hiatus are too many to enumerate, but suffice to say that the project is very much alive and I intend to keep updating the translations database as often as possible.

So, what’s new? For starters, there’s a new and fancy language selector that let’s you also search for a language as you type:

GNOME 3.0 Translations

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, are you feverishly working on the translation for the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release? Do you find yourself often wondering how a certain word was translated across the entire desktop applications? Well, I do and this is why I developed Pylyglot, a Django-driven localization tool that let’s you search for a word and see how it has been translated for a given language. The plan is to have fresh data straight from the GNOME git repositories every Monday for now, eventually switching to a more frequent update schedule.

Helping the Belarusian and Esperanto Translations

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to comments by booxter and Patrick Niedzielski, I have added support for 2 more languages to Pylyglot: Belarusian and Esperanto! So far I had been adding languages according to their translation percentage, starting from the top and slowly moving down the list, but it probably makes sense to add some of the languages that need a bit of help catching up with the other teams and provide them with a means to check their standardization. So I’m glad to welcome these two new “members” and kindly ask anyone who speaks either one of these languages to lend a helping hand with their translation by contacting their respective GNOME team coordinators:

Pylyglot, Now With More Translations

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

What a difference a day makes! Thanks to some feedback I got both here and in private, and thanks to a contributor with some extra free cycles at hand, Pylyglot got anotherÂ face liftÂ today.

So what’s new? There are now 245 total packages and 3,165,335 translations from yesterday’s 61 packages and 954,884 translations! You can also now link to a query using the resulting url from your searches using the format language=FOO&query=BAR, where FOO is the language’s ISO code and BAR is the term you’re searching.

Pylyglot, Now With More Languages

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Managed to update Pylyglot, my Django-based translations tool to include 22 new languages and the very latest GNOME 3.0 packages. Hope you guys find it useful!

Languages: 52
Packages: 61
Translations: 954,884

Pylyglot

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Been working on a pet project to help out with theÂ GNOME translations (as well as have a chance to learn more about Django) and the end product is now available at www.pylyglot.org. Basically, it is a database of all strings from all available GNOME packages parsed to (hopefully) help open source translators with their effort by providing suggestions based on existing translations.

But wait, there’s more! Since the entire collection of GNOME packages is available for your perusal, you can check how a certain word was translated across all packages and use this information to standardize the translation for the entire project.

Translations.xfce.org is 1 year old

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Received the following email this morning:

Last night our Transifex installation turned 1 year old. I think with
101 users and 4012 submissions in 45 languages it has been quite a
step forward compared to the previous mailing list-based submission
system. For that I'd like to thank all the people involved, most
noticeably Jannis for the initial setup, the Transifex guys for help
and fixing bugs, Og for the appliance we've been running for the last
half year and of course the Translators with all their patience and
effort to make it a success.

Cheers,
The Xfce development team.

This has an extra special meaning for me, not only because I am one of the 101 users contributing translations to the Xfce project, or because I’m a huge supporter of the work the Transifex guys have been doing, but because of their use of the Transifex Appliance!