What

• Program for translation students to gain practical experience translating Tiki (the software)

How

• Using i18n.tiki.org
  • Thus, they can contribute via a web interface and in context
• If it's a language which is already fully translated, they can work on translating the documentation.

Who

• Translation students all over the World

When

• 1st pilot project will be with Universidad Europea de Madrid

What is really cool with this project

• It provides real-World experience to student translators
• The result is contributed to a major Open Source project
  • Remember all the homework you did in school? Well, it never was useful to anybody!
• Students learn a software which that has a high likelihood of being useful to them (ex.: for a personal blog, a class wiki, etc.)
• It is repeatable to any number of languages
• Once we have ironed out the process, any translation department in the World can participate!
• Get feedback from real-World users of Tiki

Other notes

• Sometimes, the feature / label is not clear in English, making it difficult to translate. We should develop a way for translators to report unclear interfaces.
• Untranslated strings should have a different style (ex.: be in red) to make it faster to find them on the page and to avoid ambiguous cases where the translated word is identical to the source (as often happens between English & French)
• We would need to be able to track who translated what (via tiki.org usernames) so the teachers can evaluate students and for proper credits to be attributed when the bot commits.