w3c / translation-management

Workflow to manage volunteer translations of W3C documents
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Translation/
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Integrate translations more closely in W3C web site #4

Open dontcallmedom opened 5 years ago

dontcallmedom commented 5 years ago

The previous translations system was maintained as a set of static RDF files where the data on translations and translators was semi-automatically kept up to date.

While that system served us well, it became harder and harder to find the resources to maintain it, and its operations as a set of static RDF files deprived us of a closer integration into other W3C systems.

Some of these integration points would be:

dontcallmedom commented 5 years ago

The new approach would:

The tighter integration would enable e.g. to bring translation in profile pages (assuming they get made available, which hasn't been decided yet), as well as provide automated links from TR documents themselves through a JavaScript library-powered insert.