Re: Regarding the importance of multilingualism

Hi all,

I agree in that the peer revision model is a good first step.

As far as translations into Spanish is concerned, since 1998 there is a
group of Translators in the SIDAR Seminar [1], which was established
precisely to facilitate the possibility that the Spanish translations are
reviewed by other translators before publication, in a way that ensure a
minimally acceptable level. The group has agreed a workflow, rules of style
and features a glossary to facilitate the homogenization of the translation
of technical terms or neologisms.

All the spanish translators are invited to be part of the group [2].

This group of translators is also available to be part of the official
translation teams, and indeed some of they participated actively and
tirelessly, on behalf of the Sidar Foundationin, in the first official
translation existing  [3].

Best regards,
Emmanuelle

[1] http://www.sidar.org/presen/
[2] http://www.sidar.org/recur/desdi/traduc/index.php
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Lists/ListAuth.html

-- 
Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
Fundación y Seminario SIDAR
URL: www.sidar.org
email: emmanuelle@sidar.org

2008/1/7, Simone Pascarosa <simone.pascarosa@gmail.com>:
>
> I'm so happy to see such a post!
> I agree completely with the peer revision model; in Italy, where I live,
> I'm working with the Italian Linux Documentation Project and we use this
> model to ensure the quality of our translation (considering that everybody
> is native speaker).
>
> I can suggest, for W3C documents, a native speaker proofreader that just
> reads documents and issues translation problems. If he thinks translation is
> too wrong than he can call a peer proofreader to mark that translation as
> wrong and to re-translate it.
>
> But maybe we can talk about it extensively.... ;)
>
> Simone
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 5:11 PM, Gaston Diego Valente <gaston@spanish-translator-services.com
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I have been following the discussions about how far we should go in the
> > pursue of localizing W3 documents and found this post of an UNESCO
> > initiative around this issue.
> >
> >
> > http://www.english-spanish-translator.org/translators-events/3005-2008-international-year-languages.html#post12200
> >
> > On the other hand I agree the quality of translations must be supervised
> > to ensure that the localization effort is not only broad but also of the
> >
> > highest quality possible. Maybe a peer revision model can work.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Gaston
> >
> >
>


-- 
Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
Fundación y Seminario SIDAR
URL: www.sidar.org
email: emmanuelle@sidar.org