[Fsf-friends] GNOME translation...
FN
fred@bytesforall.org
Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:01:59 +0530 (IST)
Hi Christian, I came across a month-old page of stats from GNOME... of all
places, via a LUG from Bangladesh. In India, a number of diverse efforts
seem to be underway to localize GNU/Linux in the wide variety of regional
and non-English languages we have here. It would be great if you could
build closer links with groups working in this arena (particularly
accessible through networks like the Indic-Computing forum on
Sourceforge). I will share your stats with groups that could get further
interested. Regards, FN
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Date: 24 Jan 2003 01:55:22 +0100
From: Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com>
To: gnome-i18n@gnome.org
Cc: release-team@gnome.org, desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME 2.2 Translation Statistics and Rankings
Here we go again. Last week I summarized the translation statistics and
sent it out to gnome-i18n@gnome.org, and as a week has passed it's
probably a good idea to do so again. The numbers (percentage of
translated messages) are taken from our 2.1 core translation status page
(http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/gnome-2.1-core/) and
then I have sorted the languages by level of completedness, and ranked
them. There is also the level of support (using the
http://www.gnome.org/i18n/ definitions of "supported") the languages
would recieve if GNOME 2.2 was released now. Enjoy!
Last week's Difference
Ranking Lang. Percent Level of support ranking in ranking
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 lv 100.00 Supported 1
1 nl 100.00 Supported 8 +7
1 sv 100.00 Supported 1
4 cs 99.98 Supported 4
4 da 99.98 Supported 5 +1
4 de 99.98 Supported 5 +1
4 es 99.98 Supported 1 -3
8 sk 99.78 Supported 15 +7
9 el 99.53 Supported 7 -2
10 sl 99.05 Supported 21 +11
11 pt_BR 98.61 Supported 13 +2
12 no 98.56 Supported 9 -3
13 vi 97.11 Supported 17 +4
14 ca 95.84 Supported 20 +6
15 mn 95.35 Supported -- +43
16 fi 94.83 Supported 11 -5
17 fr 94.75 Supported 10 -7
18 ms 91.63 Supported 12 -6
19 pl 91.62 Supported 16 -3
20 zh_TW 91.43 Supported 19 -1
21 ko 90.21 Supported 14 -7
22 ru 89.61 Supported 23 +1
23 bg 89.02 Supported 18 -5
24 zh_CN 87.11 Supported 24
25 ro 85.47 Supported 30 +5
26 hu 84.72 Supported 22 -4
27 uk 84.00 Supported 29 +2
28 pt 77.83 Partially supported 25 -3
29 be 75.09 Partially supported 26 -3
30 ja 75.00 Partially supported 27 -3
31 he 71.87 Partially supported 28 -3
32 tr 70.18 Partially supported 31 -1
33 it 64.28 Partially supported 32 -1
34 et 55.26 Partially supported 34
35 gl 46.98 Unsupported 33 -2
36 az 40.85 Unsupported 35 -1
37 am 39.08 Unsupported 36 -1
38 hi 37.98 Unsupported 37 -1
39 mk 36.82 Unsupported 38 -1
40 ar 36.02 Unsupported 39 -1
41 wa 33.00 Unsupported 40 -1
42 lt 32.33 Unsupported 41 -1
43 eu 30.20 Unsupported 42 -1
44 nn 27.50 Unsupported 43 -1
45 ta 25.12 Unsupported 44 -1
46 sq 24.00 Unsupported 45 -1
47 fa 4.32 Unsupported 46 -1
48 ga 3.64 Unsupported 47 -1
49 sp 2.38 Unsupported 48 -1
50 sr 2.38 Unsupported 49 -1
51 bs 2.31 Unsupported 50 -1
52 en_GB 1.48 Unsupported 51 -1
53 th 1.01 Unsupported 52 -1
54 bn 0.61 Unsupported -- +4
55 hr 0.47 Unsupported 53 -2
56 ia 0.32 Unsupported 54 -2
57 en@ipa 0.29 Unsupported 55 -2
58 cy 0.20 Unsupported 56 -2
59 es_ES 0.01 Unsupported 57 -2
So let's summarize. We have two new languages this week, Mongolian (mn)
and Bengali (bn). Bengali enters the list at 54th place (Unsupported),
but Mongolian makes the impossible possible and enters the list at a
whopping 15th place (Supported). Sanlig Badral, Ochirbat Batzaya,
Tegshbayar, Bayarsaihan and the other guys in the Mongolian team have
certainly made an impressive start by jumping right in in the top crowd
with over 95% translated messages! The Mongolian team started their work
on GNOME translations less than a month ago, and in that short period of
time they've managed to translate no less than 11455 messages.
Incredible!
We now have 27 supported languages (>80%), whereas we had only 23 last
week. Out of those, 3 are at exactly 100% (also 3 last week). We have 7
partially supported languages (50%<x<80%), whereas we had 9 last week.
The reduction here is most likely due to the increase of supported
languages.
Keep 'em coming... :-)
Christian
PS. If anyone wonders about language codes, you'll find them all
explained on http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html. DS.
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