allow comments and discussions to be translatable
Pirate Praveen Thu 23 Jan 2014 9:29AMPublicSeen by 95In "Pirate Movement of India", our members are native speakers of many languages. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status_in_India)
In a recent discussion one member had to use their mother tongue so that they can clearly express their idea - https://www.loomio.org/d/tu97i2az/loksabha-elections-2014 But that would automatically exclude people who speak other languages but can understand English. In this case I manually translated all comments in Malayalam to English and posted as my comments. I would like loomio to be able to allow this as a feature ie, each text content needs to be translatable so that anyone can offer translations and people can choose their preferred languages to communicate.
Richard D. BartlettThu 23 Jan 2014 7:33PM
Wonderful suggestion @praveenarimbrathod. What languages have you got in your groups @rachelbwickert?
Rachel B. WickertThu 23 Jan 2014 8:39PM
@richarddbartlett our "official" working languages are French and English but we have also Spanish, Dutch , Deutsch, Italian and Cantonese native speakers.
Robert GuthrieFri 24 Jan 2014 10:27PM
Wow this is a really cool idea. It could be a really nice plugin... or just a great feature to build right into Loomio. I want to dooo it!
mix irvingMon 3 Feb 2014 1:40AM
i love this idea as well.
until someone in the community can build it, you might have to establish a group protocol for translating specific posts.
in case it help, if you want to link to a specific comment, you can right-click on the time-stamp of a comment and click copy-url, and then you have a way to reference a comment in the discussion
mix irvingMon 3 Feb 2014 1:41AM
e.g. this link
https://www.loomio.org/d/2WiJqSN4/allow-comments-and-discussions-to-be-translatable#comment-73572
came from here:
mix irvingMon 3 Feb 2014 1:42AM
mix irvingTue 4 Feb 2014 9:10PM
oh wow, it looks like someone in the open source community is building what you've asked for. The first iteration will take us part the way to a solution. It would be awesome to get peoples feedback about how it is when it's rolled out.
we'l keep you posted
mix irvingWed 5 Feb 2014 7:13AM
it's live! many thanks to @jameskiesel
go give it a whirl on some comments like the ones in here :
https://www.loomio.org/d/nrq3Dlg0/carta-das-organizacoes-da-sociedade-civil-ao-relator-do-marco-civil-da-internet
it's a first step towards a solution, so we'd love feedback on how people find it
Alanna IrvingWed 5 Feb 2014 7:14AM
Fastest turnaround on a feature request ever? Thank you @jameskiesel you rule!
Rachel B. Wickert ·Thu 23 Jan 2014 9:35AM
Yes, I agree. Something like the translate option in Facebook. That feature would resolve a big issue that our group has been battling with since the beginning.