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Translate website contents (by humans) #42

Open quassy opened 7 years ago

quassy commented 7 years ago

This is independent of my criticism against Google Translate in #17 as at the moment human translations are still better than automated ones.

It'd be great if the website could be translated into different languages. I believe the community is big enough to provide for some common languages and it is also a great way to get people contributing which can't code.

GrindamN commented 7 years ago

Hey @quassy thanks for the feedback. At the moment, multi-language feature is under development so there is still some time until it becomes ready. However, I agree, it would be useful to get those translations done and have it ready when the feature is done. Regarding Google Translate, it was more of a choice for the users that aren't so much accustomed to using Google Chrome and are using other browsers on different devices. Overall, it is temporary solution that will be removed in a near future. In the meantime, it would be best to open up the poll to get the overview of most requested languages and work from there.

vinzv commented 6 years ago

It looks like Pagekit still doesn't have a multilang feature out of the box. So is there anything new on that issue? (I'd volunteer for translating the website to German.)

th-sommer commented 5 years ago

Regarding Google Translate, it was more of a choice for the users that aren't so much accustomed to using Google Chrome and are using other browsers on different devices. Overall, it is temporary solution that will be removed in a near future.

You can remove Google Translate anytime, because it renders the website virtually unreadable (German). It's a crime against grammar and semantics. In many cases you have to translate it back to English in your mind to get the sense of it. Better get some native-speaker volunteers to translate the website (like mentioned above).

vinzv commented 5 years ago

Things have developed on the Pagekit side: https://pagekit.com/docs/developer/translation So could we please have translations feature activated on the website and get rid of that Google translate bar asap?

GrindamN commented 5 years ago

We are currently in process of switching to something else due to Pagekit stagnation for more than a year. Sadly the mentioned link only gives the option to remake different website url version and then redirect user to that. The current candidates are Hugo and OctoberCMS. In the mean time I'll see if we can provide temporary solution via the way I mentioned. However, if you are interested we can start translation process and have the files ready for use when the multilingual option goes live for new website.

Update: Google translate has been removed.

vinzv commented 5 years ago

We are currently in process of switching to something else due to Pagekit stagnation for more than a year. Sadly the mentioned link only gives the option to remake different website url version and then redirect user to that. The current candidates are Hugo and OctoberCMS. In the mean time I'll see if we can provide temporary solution via the way I mentioned. However, if you are interested we can start translation process and have the files ready for use when the multilingual option goes live for new website.

That sounds reasonable on the first sight but maybe throw the strings to Transifex to have them in the same convenient place as all other UB-only translations.

Update: Google translate has been removed.

Perfect, thank you!