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[VOLUNTEER] Wolfram Language Worldwide Translations Project

Eila Stiegler, Wolfram|Alpha
Posted 10 years ago

Dear Wolfram community and Wolfram Language enthusiasts,

We have started an exciting new project and are looking for YOUR help.

As part of the new Wolfram Language Worldwide Translations Project we are looking for volunteers to help translate our symbol names into other languages. Translated symbols can then be enabled to show as captions on any piece of code. We are already offering code captions in Japanese, Traditional as well as Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, French, and Portuguese. Here is an example taken from our documentation:

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With your help we would like to greatly expand the languages covered.

WhatÂ’s in it for you? You are going to be part of an unprecedented effort to make a leading programming language accessible to non-English speaking programming novices. Your contribution is going to make programming and understanding programs in the Wolfram Language much easier for hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen.

Where to start? Please follow this link to the Wolfram Code Captions Volunteer Project. There you will find a short description of the project as well as the list of languages to be translated. Should you not see your native language in our list, please contact us at volunteertranslations@wolfram.com .

For a more detailed description of this project, please check out this blog post.

Thank you!
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler
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Well, I am happy to hear that the suggestions provide support as well as entertainment ;) And you'll always have the last word on what should be chosen. If you prefer "decompositie" then that's just it. Thank you!

POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Sander, capitals should be treated whichever way is the preferred way in your native language. AbelianGroup is an interesting case. I searched what we do in German (I am German). I found both upper and lower capitals. In the Wolfram Language we chose upper capitals. In a case like this any choice seems reasonable.

POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Anytime! Thank you for participating!
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Sander, I made the changes to the text color (red) and replaced the whole set. Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks!
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Great suggestions. We're looking into changing the text color. I'll let you know once I have a new set of curation grids uploaded. Thanks!
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Sander, we addressed the issue. Would you mind giving this another try and downloading the file again? Thank you for your feedback.
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Sander, We are investigating the issue and I will get back to you as soon as this is addressed. Thank you.
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Hi Sander, It's great to see such a quick response. In the top right corner of each notebook you'll find a "Submit" button. This will submit your translations into a specific databin. Please note that you do not need to have the entire notebook translated. Upon submission it'll give you a quick report on how many changes were found and successfully submitted.

The given translations in the right column are just suggestions. If you find them to be appropriate, please choose one and you'll see that the text field gets auto-filled with that translation. That field is editable, so you can make changes, or type your own translation as needed.

Thank you!
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Sander, the presence of unused symbols is a minor glitch. If you find such functions, please just skip them. You will find the new additions as well:

TakeLargest and TakeSmallest are both contained in Dutch_Language2.nb >> Extraction >> lines 29 and 31

ColorToneMapping is listed in Dutch_Graphics.nb >> Color >> line 28.

Thank you.
POSTED BY: Eila Stiegler

Hi @Eila Stiegler

I was doing some of the translations, but it looks like it uses some of the 'old' names:

and probably there are more... Why are the version 10.1 (10? 10.2?) function names used rather than the ones from 10.3.1?
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

Hi @Eila Stiegler ,

It seems to be working fine for Dutch. What I noticed is that the suggestions suffer from (what we call) English disease, (writing 'train passenger' rather than 'trainpassenger'). But apart from that it gives good suggestions, and also vocabulary-wise it is nice to have.

But I have a feeling I'm one of the very few that has submitted some translations yet... Well at least Dutch is now leading: ;-)

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I guess you have some similar graph on your screen ;-) In case you haven't I can send you the code...
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

The suggestions are btw pretty good (in the case of Dutch), but is very persistent on translation Decomposition with ontleding while there is also decompositie in Dutch. Decomposition and decompositie both have the mathematical connotation and the one of a rotting body. While ontleding does not have this rotting connotation (but rather 'dissection'), it can also be used in the mathematical sense. I prefer though, to use the one that is closest to English, despite being a bit longer.

Some of the suggestions made me chuckle though: enter image description here
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

Could you also indicate what the stance is on capitals? For example, AbelianGroup is translated to Abelse groep in dutch, a direct translation. Though on several places on the internet I've also seen abelse groep (no capital). I would favour the usage of capitals as it origins from a name (but is not a name directly).

This might be a question for Dutch speaking though; normally if it is a derived word (Abelian/Abelse from Abel), then no capital in Dutch. Except when:

"Even if the name of a person is unchanged used to describe an object, void the capital. 
Only if the object is the product of the labor and creativity of the person mentioned, we reserve the capital. 
This applies to paintings, books, clothing or objects that have a person's name as a brand name.
The personal names given to ships or other vehicles, the capital preserved."

So is the Abelian group part of his labour? his brand? or creativity? I guess so? I presume the translations the community provides will be checked by a real translator?!
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

Thanks that is a lot nicer!
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

Thanks it works now I think! Could you also change the color of < enter text or select best option > to red or so (or empty)? When you scroll through a document you can then easily spot the ones that are empty, now my brain has to scan 1 by 1 very slowly...

Even better would be that once you press submit, it deletes those entries from the Notebook, or marks them green or ....
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

If I click the button the summary shows:

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I'm not sure if the NB has the function? (yes I have dynamics enabled)
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

The label for the button is not yet translated ;)

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POSTED BY: Sander Huisman

I downloaded an NB file with a bunch of translations (Dutch statistics 1). How do I/where do I submit it?
POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
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