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.. title: Making the Web Site Translation Friendly
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.. slug: 2017/11/19/making-the-web-site-translation-friendly
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.. date: 2017-11-19 12:00:00 UTC
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.. type: text
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.. previewimage: https://openlp.org/cover-images/making-the-web-site-translation-friendly.jpg
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Over the years, we have tried to have a multi-lingual website. Unfortunately each time has ended up with the same
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scenario:
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1. User gets excited
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2. User joins the translation team
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3. User translates 50% to 80% of the website
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4. User forgets about translation
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5. Translation is no longer maintained, and we get requests to fix a language we don't speak
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If you've ever wondered why our manual is only in English, this is why.
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Earlier this year, however, after some more requests by users to be able to translate the website, we looked at a new
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feature from online translation site `Transifex.com`_ called *Live Translation*. Essentially this allows you to
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translate your website without the need for much maintenance. So we decided to silently roll out a beta phase of a
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translatable website.
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We're quite pleased with the result so far. We've had a number of people translate the website, and most of those
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translations have stuck to 100% completion. We also don't publish a translation until it is 100% complete. This helps
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us to keep a website that looks great no matter which language it is being displayed in.
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Along the way, however, there have been a couple of hitches. One of them is that there was a lot of HTML in the strings
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that needed to be translated. We have gone through the website and tried to address this as much as possible. There
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are still some HTML tags here and there, but more complicated stuff like links and icons have been removed, which
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should make translating the site much easier.
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Unfortunately this does have the side effect that a lot of the strings that were already translated will now have to be
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translated again, but we trust you will bear with us while those folks who have volunteered to translate the site bring
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it back up to 100% translated.
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Would you like to be involved in this project? Just sign up on `Transifex.com`_, and join the `website project`_.
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*As a side note, the blog has been puposefully kept untranslated.*
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[ Image Credit: `Whisky Zulu by Dennis van Zuijlekom`_ ]
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.. _Transifex.com: https://www.transifex.com/
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.. _website project: https://www.transifex.com/openlp/openlp-website/
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.. _Whisky Zulu by Dennis van Zuijlekom: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dvanzuijlekom/11438391234/
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