TranslationTool

The TranslationTool is an open posting system to coordinate and collaborate on translation work in the indymedia network. It is based on Zope and squishdot. Zope is a powerful Web Application Server (see Introduction to Zope) and Squishdot is a bulletin board (or weblog) that is implemented as a Zope-Product. The TranslationTool is just a customization of Squishdot. Zope and Squishdot are written in python and dtml (the dynamic markup language of Zope)

contact: translation at lists dOt indymedia dot org

Server:http://translations.indymedia.org

Meetings

reallife meeting

• working group at germanwide indymedia meeting, 3rd Oct, Frankfurt http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/TopicListe

irc-meetings

• The channel is #TranslationTool on irc.indymedia.org

• TranslationIrcMeeting5 (25 th of September 2004 )
• http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WwwFeaturesMeeting4 24th of April 2004
• TranslationIrcMeeting4 (date to be decided)
• TranslationIrcMeeting3 (3rd November 2003 20:00 Brussels time)
• TranslationIrcMeeting2 (8th September 2003 20:00 GMT+2) (postponed)
• TranslationIrcMeeting1 (27th August 2003 20:00 GMT+2)

Mission Statement and Editorial Policy

• TranslationToolMissionStatement

• TranslationToolEditorialPolicy

Features:

(most parts of this are taken from the squishdot homepage)

--> TranslationToolSuggestedFeatures

• Multilingual user interface (see TranslationToolI18n)
• Dublin Core Metadata
• Accounting (users, groups). There are at least 3 distinct roles users or groups could have: one for the moderation of postings, one for the administration of squishdot and one for the administration of Zope. More details
• moderation options -- both articles and comments moderated; only articles moderated, or no moderation at all
• search by author, topic, title or words in the article/comment body (based on the ZCTextIndex Tool of Zope)
• Truncation
• Field search
• Boolean algebra
• Phrase search
• incremental indexing (as soon as a new document is posted, it gets indexed, so the index is always up to date)
• automatic article expiration (articles automatically deleted X amount of days after posting)
• file attachments to articles and comments
• subject topics -- you can create subject categories to group together related articles
• subject topic images -- you can optionally associate subject topics to images
• RSS/RDF channel pages (for content syndication) + RSS/RDF channel page generator + channel cache mechanism
• posting of plain text, structured text (wiki- syntax) or html
• posting previews
• customizable HTML filtering
• email - notification for moderators (every article and/or comment)
• email - notification for the author of a posting (every comment)
• subscribe your mailinglist - get emails whenever a posting is made and a regexp pattern is matched
• undo - feature for every transaction
• Clientside-Javascript input form helpers - but Javascript is not necessary to use it
• GUI-Internationalization
• XML-RPC support
• xml-backup or import/export of data and logic

Debugging

• Bugtracker (here you can post bugs, navigation or layout problems you detected while using the system)
• TranslationToolReportBugs (Alternatively to the Bugtracker, you can post bugs, navigation- or layout-problems here)

License

• http://www.squishdot.org/License
• http://www.zope.org/Resources/License

Documentation

• User Guide, help on administration, moderation, etc. (english, french, german)
• there is just little Documentation for squishdot on http://www.squishdot.org
• you will find a huge amount of documentation for Zope concerning installation, administration and usage here: http://www.zope.org/Documentation

Subscribe the TranslationTool

How to get automatic eMail-notifications when requests are posted on the TranslationTool: TranslationToolSubscribe

Download and Installation

People can use the TranslationTool without installing any software. If you want to create a similar service like the TranslationTool by your own - here is the information on how it is down: TranslationToolInstall

Internationalization

TranslationToolI18n

Promotion / Banner

TranslationToolPromotion