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Challenges in Crowd-sourcing The positive side of things 150+ active volunteer translators in over 40 languages Over 2 million words translated for all Opera products, including browsers, web-sites and -applications Working


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Challenges in Crowd-sourcing

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The positive side of things

  • 150+ active volunteer translators in
  • ver 40 languages
  • Over 2 million words translated for all

Opera products, including browsers, web-sites and -applications

  • Working both off-line and

collaboratively on the web

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  • Crowd sourcing is not free, nor effortless
  • Check your applicants
  • A large crowd is not necessarily a good crowd
  • Crowd sourcing should only be used for certain tasks
  • Crowd sourcing should not be used for time critical tasks

Caveat

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  • Start small
  • Put your crowd under embargo/NDA
  • Appoint at least one contact person per language
  • Teach your crowd your branding guidelines
  • Teach your crowd your terminology

Protect your assets, teach your crowd

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  • Our applications use GNU gettext (PO)
  • www.opera.com uses XLIFF
  • Separate content from layout.
  • Discovered that Open Source is not Open Standards

What we did

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  • gettext and po4a
  • Transifex
  • Translate Toolkit with Pootle and Virtaal
  • Homebrew applications to bridge the vast gaps

Tools we used

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  • Semantic markup is key
  • Proper CSS
  • Write a separate RTL-stylesheet to negate RTL-challenged CSS
  • Every time you float:left a kitten dies
  • Every time you padding:left without a right, another one
  • Why won’t anyone think of the kittens?
  • Test in all browsers and on all platforms (1998 anyone)

Right-to-Left

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