The WebTranslateIt Blog

Web Translate It - Perfect fit for Web 2.0 translations
Our good friends at Beluga Linguistics wrote a great blog post about Web Translate It.

If you’re looking for a translation team, I recommend highly Beluga. Not only are they friendly, but they are also efficient. They will help you establish a translation workflow, and their translation team really knows how to translate and test software, which is a huge time saver for developers.

Web Translate It now support 2 new file formats:

• .php files, which really are HTML files decorated with <?php and ?> tags,

• and .nsh files used by Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, which is used to localise software installation scripts for Microsoft Windows.

Read about all the supported file formats in the documentation.

This minor new version improves the performance of the synchronisation server for projects having many files.

To update your client: gem install web_translate_it.

We released today a fix to Web Translate It to account for a lack of accuracy in the string word count algorithm.

We’re currently recalculating stats for all the projects hosted on Web Translate It. You may notice your project’s stats page display less words than it used to.

We apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused.

We are now testing statistics widgets for public projects.

Many projects use Web Translate It to crowd-source their translations. For instance TV Shows, Rhythmbox radio browser or MyDrumPad are all public projects, which means any visitor can browse their project in Web Translate It and request an invitation to help translating the software to their languages.

If you want to drive visitors from your project website to Web Translate It, we made a really simple widget you can embed on any website, so your users can see where help is needed and can request an invitation to help your translate your software.

Here’s how the stats widget looks like.

To get your statistics widgets, head over your project settings and make sure your project is open publicly. For confidentiality reasons, stats widgets are only available for private projects.

Click on the link to get to the charts page, and copy and paste the code given. You can tweak it a little bit if you want.

That’s it! We hope you will find this widget useful.