community-translations

Online Translation

I am trying to develop an online translation service (sort of a personal challenge) but I have been looking for any guidelines or any way to see how it should be done and so far I have come up with nothing so. In a nutshell, does anybody knows where to find a service, code or explanation of how online translation works and/or guidelines ...

Crowdsourced Translation

I once saw a free translation management software that was used to publish the original software texts and allow translation to other languages in a collaborative way. Something similar to http://www.mtranslator.com/ but also allowed community driven additional translations. I just cannot seem to find it again so I was wondering if anyo...

Open Source: How to motivate translators to bring localizations from 70% to 100% before release?

I maintain an Open Source Android app. Every once in a while, some anonymous hero localizes to its mother tongue, sending files or using our online tool. At first I thought the magic of collaboration would be enough to provide timely localizations, but actually, the UI strings change, and each release ships with roughly: 5 languages l...