On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:13, Lucas Vieites <lucas@...162...> wrote:
just to clarify my position: I don't pretend to substitute the currently used gettext .po files that are used for the GUI, but only the Wiki pages
If I understand it correctly, you don't want to translate Inkscape GUI using Translatewiki, you want to translate Inkscape website wiki pages using Translatewiki. I don't think that's reasonable - Translate wiki is string-based, not page-based, so it will not make this job easier. I originally understood you want to enable current .po files to be translated via Translatewiki (as Yuri said, they do .po import/export), that would be reasonable.
In the same way that I don't agree with the decision that was taken to convert the tutorials to .po files for translation, and then converting them back again to svg format, I would not find it "logical" to convert the wiki texts to .po and then back again. I think that that would be a waste of effort if there already is an easier way to automate the task.
Here I don't agree with you - the task is automated. And import/export of translations to some web translation platform would also be automated, .po files wouldn't disappear, only translators would not work with them directly.
I don't have any experience using translatewiki (yet), so I don't know if it really would be an easier way to keep inkscape's wiki translations up to date. Could you shed some light here?
I think this is highly subjective - which one each translator prefers. Recently there was such transition going on in LXDE and they were deciding between Transifex and Pootle (Translatewiki was probably also mentioned) and every translator had his say in that. You can look it up in the archives.
But like I said, this is not for wiki pages.
Regards, ~~helix84