Re: Translating recipes

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Þann fös  2.mar 2018 07:14, skrifaði Matthias Clasen:
> - We will not really be able to validate the text ourselves anymore (to fix
> spelling
>    mistakes, punctuation, etc)
> - Translating such recipes will now require you to translate from your
> language to
>    another (most likely, to English).
>
> We were wondering what you as translators think of these ideas ?
> Will you be able to help out with validating such content ?
> Will translating in the 'opposite direction' be a problem ?

I seriously doubt that translating [thousands of] recipes should be 
within the scope of D-L translations, possibly a handful of them to 
populate an initial setup would be OK.

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P.S: But in this case, I'd think about which format to use for 
exchanging recipes (I don't have gnome-recipes at hand); are the recipes 
sent in via database conduit or is it a XML-type of flat textfile?

So, fabling a bit: At least SVG-style files can have language-dependent 
entities, so theoretically we can have entities filled in with any 
available language - even if the base language (English) is not present 
(I think).
If each recipe is in a XML-format, it could be tagged with initial 
language, translated languages, locale dependent units, etc.
A recipe-exchange server would tag recipes with available languages, 
people would download recipes in a language they understand and 
translate to another, resync, and voilá. Users (not GNOME-translators) 
would populate the translations step by step - but of course nothing 
guarantees the quality (spelling, etc.).
We could end up by having a Wiki-eatia on our hands ;-)

Of course this necessitates a recipe-editor supporting such handling of 
entities, same for parsing, etc. And probably this can be achieved via a 
database setup.

Just thinking,

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