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Re: User manuals translation?

 

I guess it is mainly the DHIS2 special vocabulary and the screenshot that
are missing from here
<https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=fr&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.dhis2.org%2Fmaster%2Fen%2Fuser%2Fhtml%2Fdhis2_user_manual_en.html&edit-text=>

Knut

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:30 AM Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks, I understand the effort needed and most technical profile I know
> can read english, so I suppose this is both huge and difficult to priorise.
> A sort of "stupid" id - could we not start by putting the whole manual (or
> the various XML parts) through google translate as a basis, and accept
> contributions from that point? I tested it, it is surprinsingly good.
>
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>> Unfortunately, that version of the manual is extremely out of date and
>> incomplete. It has not been updated in a number of years.
>>
>> The translation process is currently a community driven one, with limited
>> support from the core team. The core team maintains a translation server (
>> https://translate.dhis2.org) for the software.
>>
>> Community contributions would certainly be welcome and if there are
>> specific questions about how to get started, please let me know.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:53 AM Martin Van Aken <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Some of our users are French speaking, and while I know the interface is
>>> translated, are some of the doc (user or even implementer manual) available
>>> in French somewhere?
>>>
>>> I though not then found a GitHub repo here:
>>> https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-docs-fr but I'm unsure about the status
>>> (one year old is not that bad if needed).
>>>
>>> Is there a goal to drive such an effort, possibly community driven?
>>>
>>> Martin
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>
>
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