Thread:Translating talk:IHRIS/End-user - translator communication/reply

I don't know the best way of connecting with end-users, we have a few mailing lists (see http://open.intrahealth.org/mediawiki/Project_Communication) as well as specific ones for each of the countries we are assisting with. Once this process is fully automated, we can send out announcements as appropriate to help find translators. Unfortunately, we cannot expect end-users to have reliable Internet connection so sometimes communication is difficult.

For reporting any translation errors, assuming there is a realiable connection, ideally we should have something within the program itself to ease this process. Any suggestions of how this is done in other projects?

To give you a sense of the language priorities, here is a list of some implementations that I know of Sierra Leone Ghana Botswana Lesotho Malawi Pakistan Uganda Kenya Tanzania (also Zanzibar) Togo South Africa (Eastern Cape) As to how this dictates the language requirements it is difficult to know. For example in Africa, if it is a national implementation based at a Ministry of Health, then they tend to use English (or French as their colonial history warrants). However, if the implementation is going out to the districts, then there more likely need to be translations into the relevant national (non-colonial) language.

That being said, our priorities at the moment for translation would be Arabic and Spanish.