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Marta Stojanovic (non enregistrÃ©) Wed 08 of Oct, 2008 17:36 GMT

Collaborative environments pose a challenge with
regard to translation workflow. Conventional translation processes and tools are based on several assumptions that no longer stand for collaborative environments. The assumption of a master language, or stable, "final" version of a document to be translated would be hard to impose on a collaborative environment where authors' main language is frequently not English, or where a document is never "final". The presentation will address seven assumptions (including the two mentioned above) of the traditional translation workflows and how these are challenged in the Web & Wiki world. Finally, we will describe a working solution to these issues, implemented in TikiWiki, a full-featured, open source, multilingual Web Content Management System (CMS) and successfully used by Firefox documentation site.