[Lexicon] [QGIS-Developer] Concerns about translations and QGIS overall credibility

[Ronald Tse]

Hi Jorge,

Thank you for spreading the news!

The current development site with loaded terms is located here:
https://osgeodev.geolexica.org

I believe the group is still waiting for some confirmation on terminology across OSGeo. As you can see on the site, a number of conflicting definitions exist and the group would need some effort to discuss and attempt to settle these — since they are used across different OSGeo projects.

Geolexica has also been working with ISO/TC 211 on their latest efforts in translating the 5th edition of the TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms (MLGT). There is now have a desktop application for managing translations through change requests, all based off a git repository on GitHub:
https://www.glossarist.org

I agree that more love is needed to the lexicon group to move things ahead!

Kind regards,
Ron

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Ronald Tse
Ribose Inc.

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On Jul 4, 2020, at 6:23 AM, Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at di.uminho.pt<mailto:jgr at di.uminho.pt>> wrote:

Hi Ian, hi all,

There are people trying to run an OSGeo "Interest group" on
"Terminology", to be transversal to all OSGeo projects.

They created a proof of concept, called "geolexica", available at:

https://osgeo.geolexica.org/concepts/

Sources on: https://github.com/geolexica/osgeo.geolexica.org

It would be awesome if we were able to fill the translation for the
different languages associated with the English concept, right on the
origin.

As far I as know (I'm cc to lexica group), this project needs some
additional "love" to go on.

Maybe Cameron (in cc) or someone else can make an update on the lexicon
activities/plans.

Regards,

Jorge

On 30/06/20 10:57, Ian Turton wrote:


On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 10:40, Bo Victor Thomsen
<bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com <mailto:bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com>> wrote:

   Dear developers:

   As a former translator of the Danish version of QGIS I have a few -
   very personal, perhaps a bit caustic - comments:

     * Create a group or list of highly technical GIS related terms
       that is *not* to be translated. There is a lot of GIS terms that
       is English in origin, but haven't a well defined local
       translation. (With some hilarious results if they are
       translated). Not all translators is well versed in every aspect
       of GIS.



Is this something that OSGEO can help to oversee and/or maintain as I
suspect that this list would be useful across many projects.

Ian

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