[Qgis-tr] Issues with translation

[Jörn Gutzeit]

Hi,

as written [1], I did a small survey of german translators and there 
problems. It refers not only to Transifex but also to other processes 
and structures. We hope that perhaps other translator groups can help us 
with experience and tips:


- Some people find it difficult to get started with Transifex. Is there 
any experience if workshops can help to get started? Is there perhaps 
already a video tutorial (that could be translated or subtitled)?

- It is not possible to preview the translation, e.g. to identify errors 
in the formatting syntax. Is there an editor or another way to do this? 
Building the doc on their own system does not seem to be an option for 
everyone.

- It happens that "dead" or duplicate resources appear in Transifex, so 
it is sometimes unclear what actually needs to be translated. How can 
you find out what actually appears in the manual, what needs to be 
translated?

- You have to keep the structure of the english original, even if it is 
incomplete or out of date, so you cannot delete or add a paragraph. Are 
there any ideas on how to solve this?

- We have not found a way to get a message when a translation is reset 
to english (because there have been changes made). So you don't notice 
that something in an already translated part is displayed in English 
again. How do others solve this problem?

- It sometimes happens that translations are not displayed at all or 
only after a long time. A current example: 14.1 The Vector Properties 
Dialogue: translated on 25.01.2022, not yet online. Maybe there are 
errors, but how can you find out?


One of the main problems seems to be that already translated paragraphs 
are reset to English (and there is no message about it). It looks like 
the German translation could be quite a bit further by just restoring 
the lost translations (we had previously assumed that this only happened 
with changes, but if I understand correctly, there are other problems as 
well [2]).
Is there any idea how to solve this problem?


Greetings,
Jörn

[1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-tr/2022-February/001307.html
[2] „Reoccuring strings“ 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-tr/2022-February/001299.html

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