History: Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project Proposal

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Massively collaborative sites like wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr and SecondLife are revolutionizing the way in which content is produced and consumed world wide. These new technologies and paradigm will also significantly impact the way that content is __translated__. Indeed, the traditional top-down command and control translation paradigms commonly used today are simply not appropriate in a context where content is grown organically from the grassroot.

The ((Cross Lingual Wiki Engine project)) aims at designing, developing and testing lightweight wiki tools that can be used to translate content in this new frontier. The following paper provides an overview of the type of tools we are thinking about:

* http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/publications/nrc-48736_e.html

We are actively looking for partners who can provide in-kind and/or monetary resources to help advance this highly relevant project. We are particularly short on programming resources.

Note that all code produced in the course of this project will be distributed as Open Source software.

!!Project Participants

During a meeting at the [http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/|WikiSym 2007 conference], the following people pledged resources to the project.

||__Name and Affiliation__|__Amount pledged__|__Type of resource__|
__Alain Désilets__, National Research Council of Canada|0.5 day per week for 12 months|Requirements Gathering, Programming, Testing and Evaluation|
__Louis-Philippe Huberleau__, TikiWiki|4 months full time|Programming
__Marc Laporte__, TikiWiki| ???? | ????
__Nelson Ko__, Carleton U| ???? | Requirements Gathering, Testing and Evaluation
__Sebastien Paquet__, UQO| ??? | ???
__Cola Nahaboo__, ILOG|Some of his time? + a full time intern for how long?|Requirements Gathering, Programming|
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!!Project Plan

The project will take an agile, incremental and user-centered approach to developing the tools. We will start by implementing the &quot;Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work&quot;, and quickly deploy it for use on our own site ( www.wiki-translation.com), and possibly other more corporate sites (ex: ILOG, Mozilla foundation, Energy Mines and Resources Canada). We will then enter a longer phase where we will iteratively refine and expand these minimal features based on user feedback. 

Our aim is to develop and evaluate processes and tools that can be used with any wiki engine. However, we will use TikiWiki as our platform for experimenting with those concepts. Once we have figured out how to enable translation the wiki-way inside of TikiWiki, other wiki engines will be able to follow suit by emulating what we have done. In order to facilitate this type of emulation, the project team will strive to continuously document their own experience on a lessons learned page:

* ((Lessons Learned from the Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project))

as we as through developer blogs and project discussion forums.

The running TikiWiki version and this list of lessons learned will be the main outputs of the project.

Below is an approximate timeline with milestones. Note that those are just indicative of what we are aiming for. Given the highly distributed, mostly volunteer nature of this project, we have no way of garanteeing that certain outputs will be produced by certain dates.


||__Time__|__Activities__|__Deliverables__
__Nov-Dec 2007__| Requirements Gathering, User-Centered Design.|User Personaes, Usage scenario, Prioritized list of features
__Jan-Feb 2008__|Initial development|First release of running software, First set of lessons learned.
__Feb 2008__|Testing and validation of first prototype|Re-prioritized list of features
__March-Nov 2008__|Incremental expansion and refinement|Increasingly powerful versions of TikiWiki translation features, increasingly detailed list of lessons learned||

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