Translate Website@School Program

1. Introduction

2. Requirements

3. Log in on the translators website

4. To the Translate Tool
    4.1 Translate Tool overview
    4.2 Translate a language
        4.2.1 What about those ~'s (tildes)
        4.2.2 Tips for translators
    4.3 Update a language

5. Thank you!

1. Introduction

This chapter is written in such a way that persons who have never seen Website@School can start translating words like 'OK' and 'Save' and sentences like 'You entered a wrong password' in your language.
We assume you are unfamiliar with translating with a web browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari, so please carefully read this chapter.

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2. Requirements

• You can use a keyboard and, as examples, can, send and receive e-mails, browse on the Internet, use a word processor like Word or OpenOffice. That is, you must have basic computer skills.
• When the language you are going to translate has special characters, for example Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Urdu, Vietnamese and many other languages, your computer, keyboard and browser must be able to produce these characters.
• The computer you are using to translate needs to be connected to the Internet via a fast connection, for example a broadband DSL-, cable- or fiber connection.
• The computer must have a browser program, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera or some other program which you use to look around on the Internet and visit web pages. That is, you need a 'web browser' because you translate in the browser. By saving your work, you send what you have translated from your computer to our server in the Netherlands. We do not put anything on your computer.
• Before you can start translating, you have to log in to the translation website. This is the login page: http://translate.websiteatschool.eu/admin.php. Do not go there yet, please read on.
• You have received a username and password. If not, and you want to translate, please use our Contact Form to get in touch with us .

When all the above conditions are met, you are ready for the real stuff. Here we go!

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3. Log in on the translators website

• Switch on your computer and start your web browser.
• Go to the translators login at:
  http://translate.websiteatschool.eu/admin.php.
• Now you are on the the website log in page, which looks like:
  

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This is the login 'dialogue' (dialogue is terrible computer jargon, used to describe a sort of communication or 'dialog' between a computer and its user).
Anyhow, enter your login name and password in the fields. Below is an example. The password is invisible, you only see ******** asterisks.

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After entering a valid user name and password, press the [Enter] key on your keyboard, or click the [OK] button.
If you have entered the correct login name and password, you enter the Website@School Welcome dialogue:

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Most icons in the upper left corner are greyed out, meaning you have no access to them. If you want full access to a Website@School site, please read the Basic procedures for beginners and look for the 'Sandbox'.

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4. To the Translate Tool

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You are in the Tools manager overview. In the Menu inaccessible tools are greyed out.

In the Menu click on the Translate Tool link to open the Translate Tool dialogue, which is described in the next paragraph.

4.1 Translate Tool Overview

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The list of languages is visible, but is now much longer. Thank you all!
We already have entered the language you are going to translate. Please look for the name of the language you are going to translate.The name of the language is in your laanguage.

NOTE:
Please, do NOT touch the other translations!!

Click on the name of the language you are going to translate, as example for this manual: Français (French).

4.2 Translate a language

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In the Menu the different parts of Website@School program that need to be translated can be selected. The selected part is underlined: General. That's the translation to start with. By clicking the other blue links in the Menu, you can translate the other parts of the Website@School program.

On the right side of the Menu, the Translation for Language-'language code'-'Part' can be seen. Below, as example, French:

Pleas do read about things NOT to touch, specially texts and signs in {RED}.

Below is a copy of the text you see in the picture below. We split it in two parts for the NOTICE below:

NOTE:
Stuff like <strong> and {VALUE} are part of the program code and must not be translated. The best way of working is to not even touch things like {HOTKEY}, {SITENAME}, {ALERTS},.
SUMMARY: stay out of stuff in RED!

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Let's take, as example, sentence number 2:

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The first line is in English. That's the basic language, the mother language of Website@School.
The second line, the parent language, is the line to be translated. It is now Spanish because that was the language the translator of French preferred to replace with French words. Spanish was selected for him when we created his account. It cannot be changed any more.

Another example. It could be that the picture above is also fine for a translator who understands Spanish and a bit of English. She can now replace the language in Chinese, by replacing the Spanish text:

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You also see text and signs in RED or something like {MIN_LENGTH}, {MIN_DIGIT} and similar stuff. Please, please, when translating leave those parts untouched. It is computer code! Here is an example:

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NOTE:
Please save often (at least every quarter of an hour or even more). This is done by scrolling down (or with Page Down on the keyboard) to the bottom of the page and clicking the [Save] button. Remember, your work is only on your computer and has to be send to the server somewhere in the Netherlands. It would be a small disaster if you have translated for a couple of hours and the connection was lost during translating. All your precious work gone! Please save often!

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NOTE:
Please wait for the confirmation message in the yellow bar.

After saving your text, you can continue translating until that part is done. Below is the end part of a translation:

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Explanation:

• Submit this translation: Please leave this option checked. Better submit an unfinished translation than to forget it accidentally.
• Translator name: Enter your name here.
• Translator email address: Enter your email address, so we can reach you if necessary.
• Translator notes: Space for your own notes or message(s) to us. Most translators use this part to ask us questions about the (sometimes confusing) meaning of words.
• Save: To save your results and submit the translation. After saving you stay in the same dialogue, so you can continue translating.
• Cancel: To cancel your action and return to the translate tool overview. Your work is not saved.

4.2.1 What about those ~'s (tildes)

What is a 'hotkey'?
A hotkey is a key or a combination of keys on a computer keyboard that, when pressed at one time, performs a task [...] more quickly than by using a mouse or other input device. Source: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/hot-key.
In Website@School hotkeys are used for blind webmasters. They cannot use a mouse to put the cursor in the right field to enter data. A key combination can put the cursor in the right field. For example, when using the Firefox browser and adding a new user, the combination [Shift+Alt+N] puts the cursor in the 'Name' field. When the blind user arrives at the password confirmation field, she 'sees' (by listening to a screen reader or using a braille reader) 'Confirm password'and notices the bold and underlined character 'w'. In Firefox the combination [Shift+Alt+W] puts the cursor in the 'Confirm password' field. On an Apple PC a blind webmaster would have used the [Cmd+W] key combination. And that's because, when translating, you put the tilde before the 'w'. You can put the tilde wherever you like, but not twice on the same place on one web page. As example English and Slovak in the General part:

Maybe, after having translated a bit, i.e. have some working experience, the text is not that difficult to understand. If not, please mail, phone or Skype us so we can help you.

We thank you on behalf of every pupil, parent, teacher and school in your country. You do a wonderful job for them.

4.2.2 Tips for translators

1. http://translate.websiteatschool.eu/xlate.php. These are the old translations of our previous Content Management Sytem. Available languages:
   BG (Bulgarian), BR (Brazilian), CZ (Czech), DA (Danish), DE (German), EN (English), ES (Spanish), FI (Finnish), FR (French), GB (Chinese), HU (Hungarian), IT (Italian), JP (Japanese), NL (Dutch), NO (Norwegian), PL (Polish), SE (Swedish), TR (Turkish).
2. http:translate.websiteatschool.eu/waxlate.php. These are all available translations of Website@School. Because languages are under construction, the list is not public. Please write us a mail and we send you a copy
   

How to use them? Enter 2 familiar languages, for example EN and SE (available in our old program, but not yet in the new, so use the first link) and you find many terms. Use the 'Find' or 'Search' option in your browser for a specific word. For example: password:

 6. logged_password_forget
EN: Forgot password?
SE: Glömt lösenordet?

You can also look on the Internet (Google is your friend) for computer terms dictionaries. Or ask help from another teacher or a neighbour. Everyone, like you, wants to help education.

NEW USERS:
Dear NEW USERS, here ends the manual part for new translators. When you have questions, please mail, phone or Skype Dirk Schouten.

Logging out

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4.3 Update a language

Updating a language is necessary every time a new version of Website@School sees the light of day. A new version may contain new modules, themses, features etc. And it may contain correstions of errors in an translation.

To help you finding what needs your attention, we have web pages that tell you how:

• How to update
• What to update

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5. Thank you!