Languages team management

[johav]

explore https://crowdin.com/pricing#annual to see if we fit for their free open-source plan and if they fit our needs and envisioned services

Another option is Weblate via PKP OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2020/01/22/introducing-weblate-a-new-path-for-ojs-omp-translations/

Who wants to compare and report back?

[comradekingu]

As a tool, I much prefer Weblate, having used both extensively.

Crowdin has this to say up front(!)

We support the open source community. If you're building awesome non-profit projects that could use the power of Crowdin, we're happy to help.

Compare that to https://weblate.org/hosting/ and the further requirements and you see Crowdin is only happy to be helped. It is closed source, so it isn't even in the libre software community. Furthermore it is only a software-as-a-service web-platform, so at any time their terms could be made even more egregious.

For implementation, the website needs to have some conversion to one of the supported formats, to have everything automated, or it could be done manually.

[johav]

Sorry for the late response - would you have time and capacity to help us set up Weblate for our community management? We are working with African Science Literacy Network and have just released a press announcement to collaborate with CfA (https://info.africarxiv.org/africas-largest-open-data-civic-technology-network-partners-with-continental-digital-archive-for-scientific-research-to-mitigate-covid-19/) so need any support we can to get the ball rolling...

@comradekingu

[comradekingu]

What do you want to translate, and who has access to the pkp Weblate?

The partners will do this by fact-checking misleading memes and claims, as part of a wider CfA partnership with Facebook and WhatsApp
Is this done with https://captainfact.io? I really don't want to put any effort into GAFAM.
The nail in the coffin was your CoC.

[johav]

Well not quite - also Africa needs a region-specific and distributed fact-checking - generic American services do great work but only to some degree effective in other parts of the world.
Where we (as AfricArXiv) need support for translations is mostly with translating accurate / African science-based insights into regional African languages and from English to French and Arabic. See https://info.africarxiv.org/languages/

What nail in the coffin CoC??