allow comments and discussions to be translatable
Pirate Praveen
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In "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. Bartlett Thu 23 Jan 2014 7:33PM
Wonderful suggestion @praveenarimbrathod. What languages have you got in your groups @rachelbwickert?
Rachel B. Wickert Thu 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 Guthrie Fri 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 irving Mon 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 irving Mon 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 irving Mon 3 Feb 2014 1:42AM
mix irving Tue 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 irving Wed 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 Irving Wed 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.