Slides from Drupalcamp Stockholm 2011

1. Multilingual Drupal
Gábor Hojtsy, Acquia

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3. 1
User interface
Content*

4. 1
User interface
Localization (L10N)
Internationalization (I18N)
Content*

5. 1 Locale module
★Set up languages
★Manage user
interface localization

6. 1 UI localization
★Drupal.org releases
★Localize.drupal.org
★Ftp.drupal.org

7. 1 Download and use
★Localize.drupal.org/
download

8. 1 How many modules?
(1+40)*number of languages

9. 1 Updates?
★Download again
★Upload/import again
★No, please no!

10. 1 Localization update
★l10n_update module
★Works like
update.module
★Protects local changes

11. 1 Contribute back
★Join localize.drupal.org
group
★Use l10n_client module
to touch up and
contribute

12. 1 Recap
★Locale.module manages
languages
★l10n_update must to
maintain localizations
★l10n_client to touch up
and contribute back

13. 1 Hot tip
★Check out l10n_install

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15. You are building multiple
sites in one site. Yeah.

16. Content, content, content
★Not just nodes, ok?
★Think settings, blocks,
content types, views,
panels, menus, etc.
★User/admin
contributions

17. Stumbling block #1
★My content type
properties are not
translated!
★My forum vocabulary is
not translated!

18. Model for translation
(0) Leave it alone
(1) Assign language
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object

19. Model for translation
(0) Leave it alone
(1) Assign language
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object
Eg. localization

20. Apply this to menus
(0) Leave it alone admin area menu
(1) Assign language language specific
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object language variants
same menu, translated labels

21. Apply this to nodes
(0) Leave it alone ?
(1) Assign language blog post
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object press releases, polls
og nodes, product nodes, polls

22. Apply this to everything
(0) Leave it alone
(1) Assign language
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object

23. Build it for nodes
(0) Leave it alone
(1) Assign language locale + setup
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object translation.module
entity_translation contrib module

24. Wait, entities?
★Nodes
★Users
★Comments
★Taxonomy

25. Not that rosy after all
★Settings
★Blocks
★Views
★Panels
★Webforms
★Flags
★Rules
★........

26. Build it for nodes
(0) Leave it alone Core
(1) Assign language locale + setup
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object translation.module
entity_translation contrib module

27. Build it for paths
(0) Leave it alone Core
(1) Assign language locale
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object “i18n.module”
N/A

28. Build it for the rest...
(0) Leave it alone Core
(1) Assign language “i18n.module”
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object “i18n.module”
“i18n.module” - i18nstrings

29. Build it for contribs
(0) Leave it alone Contrib
(1) Assign language
(2) Assign language + group related items
(3) Translate in-object Contrib*

30. Enterprise
★Translation workflows
★Quality control
★Outside translators
★Translation memory

31. Enterprise
★Translation workflows
Actions, Rules
★Quality control
★Outside translators “XLIFF Module”
★Translation memory

32. Lingotek
★Focuses on node translation
★Integrates with content translation
★Menu item translation with i18n
★Translation itself outside of Drupal

33. Lingotek

34. Lingotek

35. Icanlocalize
★Translation management module
★Set up translators with queues
★Queue up content for translation
★Local, Google translate or pay-per-word
★Can integrate with other providers
★Works with more Drupal objects

36. Icanlocalize

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38. i18n Sprint Camp
May 11-15th, i18nsprint.drupalevents.de

39. Thanks
@gaborhojtsy