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Narro - Web application that allows online software translation
Written by Wilco Jansen Monday, 24 November 2008 12:00
The past two weeks I saw several people looking at the Narro project. Narro tries to lower the entry barrier to the software translation world by using a simple, intuitive interface and extensive checking to ensure that translation quality is kept high and people learn by translating, not by reading guidelines. Alexandru Szasz (the author) likes to call Narro an open translation because anyone can contribute, anyone can make better suggestions any-time and from anywhere. Translation maintainers benefit as well by pushing the changes to the versioning system or the other way around simply by pushing a button or executing a command.
Narro is not an Joomla! extension like Joomfish that helps you translate content within a Joomla! website. As said it tries to become up an open-source translation platform, and for that it could end up as an plugin or other kind of extension. Interesting to see how this project will develop, there are some pretty good competitors out there that also provide an open API you can use (like Google translate), but there are not many open source projects that exists (as far as I know).
About the author Wilco Jansen
Wilco was born in 1967 in the Netherlands where he still lives. After years of being a programmer Wilco has worked as project manager and IT manager. Discovered Joomla! when he was creating his own content management system, and never lost focus after then. Joined core team as development coordinator in May 2006 just helping to make Joomla! even better then it is already. Wilco has been deeply involved in the Joomla project as Google summer of code program manager 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions, co-organizer of the Google Highly Participation contest in 2008, first ever development coordinator, creator of the Joomla bug squad, member of the board of Open source matters, regular speaker on world wide conference advocating Joomla and much, much more. Wilco has a bachelor degree in business and information engineering and studied Master of Science knowledge and information engineering at the Middlesex University in London.
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Re: More and more people try to integrate automated translations :)
# 1 - Posted by: Ivo Apostolov on 2008-11-24 18:50:31
This sounds like an interesting solution. What we should consider as the future of the web translation workflow is to combine the tools facilitating the translation process like Joom!Fish and such automated tools. There are already interesting experiments in that area :).