forum for discussions in multilingual threads

Carsten Logemann

paratio.com e.K.

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http://forum-anticipolis.eu/
2011 Sun, 18 Sep, 15:00 : Session on Drupalcamp Berlin 2011

Start s5-Präsentation

about languages and me

since 1991: thinking about language problems.
2003: diploma thesis about language neutral knowledge management (still a future concept).
2007: drupal discovered (sad about missing 6 years drupal fun).
2010: concept of a forum structure with multilingual threads (Newropeans Intranet).
2011: Forum Anticipolis (public content, case study for this session)

is english the key?

audience: who is an english native speaker here?
english is a world language.
a tool or more like a crutch?
what about non english speaking people?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_language

solid i18n basement

locale: user interface translation (core)
content translation (core)
internationalization - the i18n modules (contrib)
Apache Solr Multilingual (contrib)
Registration language (contrib)
Language Icons (contrib)
Consistent Language Interface (contrib)
reduce the interface for usability!

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concept of multilingual threads

what about the core forum?
the center: thread ID (node ID of first talk)
the horizontal line: nodes with translations (core "tnid")
the vertical line: node references (CCK)
the tree view (maybe only technician like it)
view of all translations with a custom javascript helper

automatic translations - helpful?

machines can't understand humans!
i18n auto translate (contrib)
Google translation API: problems and alternatives
maybe Microsoft Bing
Moses: independence by statistics
translation workflow: humans can understand more

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current state and future

better and private automatic translation
synchronized WIKI concept
from custom code to contrib
drupal 7 and ...
help needed