[Student-projects] GSoC 2014 project proposal : Language Filter for Diaspora

[karthik senthil]

Hey Kartik

Thanks a lot for your observation !
This was exactly the problem posed to me by the Diaspora developers
when I had suggested globalize for translations.
And hence in my proposal( in the timeline section) I had allotted a
separate module for discussing this feature exclusively with the core
developers.

Due to the disadvantages of translation_tables in globalize, I have
decided to replace it with other language translation gems(which
rather use APIs like Google or Bing). I have hereby listed out a few
of the gems that I have explored:

1) to_lang ( https://github.com/jimmycuadra/to_lang )
2) easy_translate ( https://github.com/seejohnrun/easy_translate )
3) language-translator

I am sure that apart from these gems, external API calls can also be
made for the same.

Note : The reason for not mentioning the complete details of
translation on the proposal is that Diaspora developers feel that this
translation feature would increase the load on the server, and hence
left for further discussion and confirmations from them. If you feel
that this has to be added to the proposal,I am more than ready to do
so :)


Thank you for your time.
Thanking You
Karthik.S













On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Kartik A <kartik.a9111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karthik,
> This is just a query or more of an observation about how you propose to use
> globalize for translations.
> From what I understand, Globalize builds on top of the i18n API, and is used
> for internationalization and localisation not for automated translation. It
> works using translation tables, and is used to have multiple versions of the
> same site or webapp in multiple languages.
> Proposing to include "user generated content" in the translation tables of
> Globalize does not sound exactly practical, as in most cases the
> translations tables are built manually, and expecting that for every post
> someone makes on the diaspora instance we will have someone add an entry
> into the globalize translation label, is something I doubt will ever happen.
> And not to mention, it will bloat up the translation tables beyond control.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:45 AM, karthik senthil
> <karthik.senthil94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I have hereby provided a link to my smc-wiki page for my proposal on
>> Language filter for Diaspora.
>>
>> Kindly review the same and provide your opinions or suggestions for it.
>>
>> Wiki link : http://wiki.smc.org.in/User:Karthiksenthil
>>
>> Thanking You
>> Karthik.S
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