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Documenting guidelines for translations (#551)
* Documenting guidelines for translations * Start with IBM Watson machine translation. * Get a native speaker review * Update CONTRIBUTING.md Co-authored-by: Tom Sadler <thomas.sadler@bbc.co.uk> * Update CONTRIBUTING.md --------- Co-authored-by: Tom Sadler <thomas.sadler@bbc.co.uk>
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# Translations
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* All articles may be translated into any language of interest.
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* Instead of translating from scratch, consider starting with [machine-translated text](https://www.deepl.com/translator) and revising from there.
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* Instead of translating from scratch, consider contacting [@nysenthil] to get an IBM Watson machine translation as a starting point and revising from there.
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* All translations (manual or machine-generated) must be reviewed and approved by a native speaker.
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* Translated articles should be stored next to the English articles in a subfolder named as the [two-character language code](https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php) of the translation (e.g. the `de` subfolder for German).
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* The filename of the article should be changed to include two-character language code prefix.
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* The special `index.md` files for each section should also be translated, as they are used in the Learning Path section of the [new website](https://innersourcecommons.net/learn/learning-path/)
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The new video will have a version number in the title.
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[#learning-path]: https://app.slack.com/client/T04PXKRM0/CARTU4XV2
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[@nysenthil]: https://github.com/nysenthil
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[README]: ./README.md

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