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Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 07 Jul 2018, 23:25
by Wuzzy
What good online/Web services for translating software do you know?
Please give a list. :)

Such a web service enable contributors to help translating a software in the Web. The maintainers of the software to be translated will then pull the translations from the web service when they need them.

There is only one criteria I have: The web service should not force users (i.e. the translators) to execute any proprietary JavaScript or other proprietary client code.
It's OK if the source code of web service itself (server-side) is not published, as it doesn't threaten the freedom of the users.

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 09 Jul 2018, 22:10
by flavio
I am not sure if it meets your criteria, but Weblate seems used in several important projects.

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 09 Jul 2018, 22:12
by Wuzzy
Good start. Keep ’em coming! :D

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 12 Jul 2018, 16:39
by GunChleoc
100% FLOSS, but you have to host it yourself:

http://pootle.translatehouse.org/

These 2 are very useful too but proprietary - I have no looked at the legal state of their JavaScript:

http://transifex.com/ - Free to use for FLOSS projects
http://crowdin.com/ - Not as familiar with that one as with Transifex.

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 14 Jul 2018, 04:41
by Wuzzy
Pootle is a great mention, the feature list looks amazing. Instant bookmark. I have never seen a Pootle instance in the wild so far. Do you know any project (preferably a game) which uses Pootle?

I like Weblate, too. I know it from Minetest. Weblate is useful if you can keep it simple and only have PO files and not a clusterfuck of 100 different translation formats. ;-)

Transifex is almost certainly proprietary JS. There is tons of scripting, there is no indication of license anywhere and the fact they don't brag about how open they are is telling. ;)
Can't access Crowdin right now.

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 14 Jul 2018, 11:55
by Julius
Wuzzy {l Wrote}:Pootle is a great mention, the feature list looks amazing. Instant bookmark. I have never seen a Pootle instance in the wild so far. Do you know any project (preferably a game) which uses Pootle?


I think Libreoffice is being translated with Pootle, see: https://translations.documentfoundation.org/

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 28 Jul 2018, 10:10
by GunChleoc
Mozilla used to run Pootle for many years but they have now decided to program their own system, which is called Pontoon.

I have wanted to create a Pootle instance for Battle for Wesnoth, but I just can't find the time to learn how to do it :(

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 17 Aug 2018, 02:58
by mdtrooper
https://launchpad.net/ (from Canonical, Ubuntu) has a good web tool for to translate projects (I love that it finds the same text in other projects and suggest you).

Re: Online translation platforms

PostPosted: 19 Aug 2018, 16:18
by GunChleoc
mdtrooper {l Wrote}:https://launchpad.net/ (from Canonical, Ubuntu) has a good web tool for to translate projects (I love that it finds the same text in other projects and suggest you).

That comes at a price though - no support for fuzzy matches. So, if a comma changes in the source text, the previous translations will not be accessible any more, and the team will start from scratch unless they translate offline and regularly download everything to run through their own translation memories. You also have to wait for the Launchpad Librarian to send you an e-mail when downloading a file to translate. It was good in its day, but sadly, Launchpad is very underfunded these days - or maybe they just can't find enough code contributors.