New project : docs.python.org/fr/

Hi Mdk,

Thanks for your interest in using translatewiki.

The translation system at Translatewiki.net is designed to translate software projects into various languages from the source language but as far as I understand it, you'd like to just allow translations to French for https://github.com/python/python-docs-fr

Additionally, I see many .po files in the repo here: https://github.com/python/python-docs-fr which I assume is for individual pages? Everytime a new file is added there we'd have to make some changes to the configuration to read that file on Translatewiki and allow translators to translate them.

Considering the above, and the fact that our UI is not very well suited for translation of long form text, I don't think that translatewiki is a good fit.

To give you an example of how things work, see the following project: https://github.com/WPCleaner/wpcleaner/tree/master/WikipediaCleaner/src/org/wikipediacleaner/translation

Here we read the WikiCleaner.pot file and then identify what strings have to be translated, and allow translators to translate the strings to different languages. You can see the corresponding ".po" files. This is then submitted out to the GitHub repo via a PR: https://github.com/WPCleaner/wpcleaner/pull/61 which the maintainer merges.

Regards,

Abijeet Patro (talk)10:49, 31 March 2021