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Collaborative Website Translation via the Worldwide Lexicon
Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: October 18, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Brian McConnell (Worldwide Lexicon Project)
Topic: Collaborative Website Translation via the Worldwide Lexicon
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room.
Please arrive by 7:10, as the door is not monitored
after this time.
Admission: $4; free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com
Website: http://www.imug.org
The Worldwide Lexicon Project (www.worldwidelexicon.org) is an open source, collaborative translation system for websites and publishers. The current version of WWL, available now for Word Press, Firefox and PHP based sites, enables a website's readers, as well as volunteer or staff translators, to create, edit and share translations to and from almost any human language.
The system relies entirely on people to contribute and revise translations. WWL is tightly integrated with publishing and content management systems such as Word Press, and displays translations inline with the original text, as well as via separate websites. The system has been in public beta for several months, and has logged users from over 110 countries. The project's long-term goal is to make collaborative translation universally accessible to readers and publishers, by embedding it in a wide range of publishing platforms and web services.
Brian McConnell, the project leader, will demonstrate WWL on several publishing environments, discuss the current status of the project, and its future development plans.
Brian McConnell is a telecommunications developer, author and entrepreneur. He has founded three telecom businesses since arriving in California in the mid 1990s. Brian is also a frequent contributor to O'Reilly & Associates, where he writes about software development, technology and society. He is currently the Vice President for Advanced Product Design at Virtual PBX Inc, which acquired his most recent company, Open Communication Systems, a developer of telecommunications software, earlier this year.
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