Symphony.

A while back I was checking out pootle, an application to host to enable community translations of software. It uses xliff the defacto standard. All superslick for software but not easy to install. I wanted a ‘social’ community version of it. There are some limited ones. But….. that same day google launched google translator toolkit for user submitted corrections of machine translations. Google style, simple.

You could just do a POST (reverse engineer their form) to make a button on your site to let people correct their machine translations. Once ready it can only be posted back to wikipedia and such for now….but you can also download it as xhtml.

So your voluntier could upload the file again with your supplied upload form. Your page could be presented to the translator as a structured section entry in markdown with headers with classes identifying the phrases. The manual re-entry the admin does after checking (xml event entry) can use these attributes to put all the phrases in their correct fields again.

Its a bit hacky, not fully automated XML-RPC or anything, but if it should be a success for communities, I’d rather embrace google tools…