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Project details

Project name: Joomla!

Crowdin link

GitHub link

Official Joomla! Website

Description

Joomla! is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content.
Over the years Joomla! has won several awards. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications.

Joomla! is one of the most popular website software, thanks to its global community of developers and volunteers, who make sure the platform is user friendly, extendable, multilingual, accessible, responsive, search engine optimized and so much more.

This project was born in 2005 and over all these years hundreds of developers have work to improve it.
There are over 2 millions of websites created with Joomla!.
Here you can find many of them, including some of the most relevant owned by famous people, brands and companies, such as Michael Phelps, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and others.

Why this project

This is the second project I work on, since my beginning as an approved translator. I'm very glad my Language Manager @mcassani proposed Joomla! to me, because it's very challenging to give my contribution to such an important, popular and useful software like this. I had the chance in these last years to create, together with my husband, a couple of websites for our business; being free to build, maintain and modify your website whenever you like, it's something very convenient, instead of trying to explain your ideas to someone else, even if professional.
It's quite easy to use Joomla! and it offers plenty of templates and extensions to customise your website.

Contribution Specifications

This report is about my second contribution to Joomla! translation.
As I explained last time, this project has been previously translated by other users, covering the 82% of the total: being such an important and huge software, there were still more than 20000 words to be translated.
In this second portion I worked on many small files about, for example, the different fields you can use to custom your website; most of strings were made by few words and I came across several repeated sentences with minimal variations. This needed a considerable amount of time, until I looked for some longer paragraphs to have some relief and to go straightforward to the end of my 1000 clean words. According to Crowdin I had to translate around 1700 words.
I reach the 86% of words translated in Italian with this session.

Translation overview

Today I learned what is an Invisible reCAPTCHA, a Sample Data set and an editor WYSIWYG, acronym of What You See Is What You Get: very interesting, I had no idea of that.

Here you can have a proof of some string I had to translate:

Some short string:

Fields - Textarea
The maximum number of characters that can be entered.
This plugin lets you create new fields of type 'textarea' in any extensions where custom fields are supported.
Rows
Maximum Length

Some longer paragraph from the last part about setting a Blog

This is a sample blog posting.

If you log in to the site (the Author Login link is on the very bottom of this page) you will be able to edit it and all of the other existing articles. You will also be able to create a new article and make other changes to the site.

As you add and modify articles you will see how your site changes and also how you can customise it in various ways.

Go ahead, you can't break it.

In both cases, because of the pre-existent translations made by other people, I had to check and find the right expressions to keep a connection with the previous rendering.

Languages

SOURCE LANGUAGE: English

TARGET LANGUAGE: Italian

To check my previous experiences as a translator you can consult my application

Word count

Words Translated: 1067

Proof of Authorship

You can lookup Crowdin project on the following link, as well as the summary of my activities.

Credits

I'd like to thank @davinci.witness and @utopian-io for this wonderful project I have the pleasure to work in and another big thank to the italian team, especially to the LM @mcassani, my proofreader and mentor.