POOTLE SERVER Pootle stands for PO based Online Translation/Localization Engine.

Pootle in addition to being a free software is an online translation management tool with translation interface. It is written in Python using the Django framenwork. It allows crowd-sourced translations, and allows volunteer contribution and also provides statistics on the work. It is built using the APIs of the Translate Toolkit and Django framework. It is primarily intended for free software translationand its focus is on the localization of an application's graphical user interface rather than document translation. This is done by manipulating translation files using Translate Toolkit. The Translate Toolkit also offers offline features. It enhances existing processes rather than replace them. It works with version control tools to allow changes directly to the main repository. The various roles in the translation process are: displays statistics for body of translations hosted by server. Users can use suggestion mode to make translation suggestions and corrections for later review ie it acts as a translation specific bug reporting system. Allows online translation with various online translators Manages workflow of translation when translation is done using offline tools. Main features include: terminologies extraction (based on term frequency) tranlation memory-created by offline tool Machine translation through online sources gloassary management and matching-live global glossary or glossary per project Alternative source language-view translations from a third language during translating goal creating and user management-set goals and add users to ggoals Statistics-word count and string statistics Suggestions - allow suggestions to be made allowing outside participation and bug reporting Version control - update from or commit directly to upstream version control systems User management - assign various rights to users Translation interface - perform online translation and review Checks - performs over 40 checks on translation quality multiple file formats Usage: used by OpenOffice.org One Laptop per Child's Learning Environment project. Verbatim project which builds infrastructure for Mozilla projects.

Features that Pootle Server lacks: Mark ownership of files on download: the file/file set that is downloaded should be marked with time stamp as well as who has the file to make coordination of offline files/work easy. Download/Upload fileset as opposed to a single file Details on who has the file should be availabe as well as when. Markings Each file should have the following marks: Lent out, to be reviewed, to be tested, Ok Each message should have the following marks:Suggestion, to be reviewed, to be tested, Ok

SVN capabilities :the pootle server should have a easy way for a team coordinator (also committer) to refresh the database from SVN and an easy way to commit file changes (using the committer userId) The review feature must include two extensions: Possibility to ignore violation Check word/term for consistency

LAUNCHPAD Launchpad is a web application and website that allows users to develop and maintain software, mainly open sourced software. It is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. It's source code is released under Affero General Public License. Translations is a component of launchpad, it is a site that allows localization of applications into different human languages. Launchpad translations provide crowd-sourced translations for the software so the rich the community the better the translations Features: simple web based translation and review GNU get text support automatic suggestions open to everyone with a launchpad account but subject to permissions I.e, open, partly restricted or structured and closed. Supports open standards in choosing file formats Import and export GetText files - pot, po and mo - for offline as well as online translation. You can also import translations in Mozillas XPI format. Point and Click Suggestions from library of translated strings Concurrent translations.

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Ubuntu Linux Mint Gnome Mplayer Drizzle Totally Wired Rasberrrymem-client Tivion Agenda Fala Scilab etc are some of the 1732 current projects which can be accessed on https://translations.launchpad.net/translations/+products-with-translations Disadvantages: Maintainer is needed to push and pull po files to Git and back when releasing. Site is slow at times often has non-current strings but current client is generally more stable than GIT. Advise: since GIT patches are more consistent and there are more translations in launchpad, GIT patches should download po files from launchpad, update strings to GIT, translate, upload work to launchpad and also commit in GIT.

POEDIT It is a cross platform gettext catalog editor that uses wxWidgets toolkit. Features: Poedit shows data in very compact way. Entries are aranged in a list, so that you can easily navigate large catalogs and immediately get an idea about how big part of the catalog is already translated, what needs translating and which parts are only translated in a "fuzzy" way. Runs on Unix and Windows systems. Plural forms support. Features whitespaces highlighting. Fuzzy and untranslated records are highlighted and displayed at the top of the list. Automatic compilation of .mo files (optional). Automatic headers update. References browser lets you see where and in what context is the string used. You can use Poedit to scan source code for translatable strings. Integration with KDE and GNOME desktops. Neither of these environments is required, support for them is strictly optional. UTF-8 support. Poedit understands all encodings supported by operating system and works in Unicode internally. Translation Memor automates translation of frequent phrases. Poedit can reuse translation data from all your PO, MO and RPM files. Search dialog for quick navigation in the catalog. Comments editing. Catalogs manager Spellchecking

VIRTAAL It is a free software, a computer assisted translation tool written in Python using Translate Toolkit. It's primary advantage is that interface is optimized for localizer. It works directly with any files that can be read by Translate Toolkit. Features: Simple single view interfac Colour highlighting Autocorrect Autocomplete In-context segment filtering: All segments Partial translations and non-translated segments All segments matching a search string Search and replace withregular expressions andUnicode normalisation Translation memory with several back-ends: Local translation memory database (including current file) Remote translation memory database (such as an office TM server) Machine Translation Terminology help from: Automatically downloaded files Local terminology files Open-Tran.eu Recognition and easy insertion of placeables Language identification Quality checks Users/Usage: Dennis Moyogo Jacquerye contributes to DejaVu fonts, GTK+ Third Party input modeuls, Free UCS Outline Fonts Dwain Bailey contributes to GnomeVFS, Translate Toolkit and Virtaal Walter Leibbrandt contributes to virtaal, spelt and corpuscatcher Nekral contributes to po4a and Debian Other users and their contributers can be found on http://www.ohloh.net/p/virtaal/users? page=1

POEDITOR Here are some key features: 1)Fully supported string attributes, so you always know what you're translating. 2)Visual guidance during translation, for a natural translation experience. 3)Public projects, to make the best of crowdsourcing. 4)Rich statistics for detail-oriented project owners.The POEditor Stats page offers precise information about the contributors' activity,the amount of terms, definitions, words and characters belonging to a project, as well as charts and the percentage of completion of each language. 5)The Translation Memory reduces your work volume. 6)Automatic Translation, a starting point for fresh localization projects.Automatic Translation offers the possibility to work with the Google and Bing translation engines in order to automatically fill in empty definitions. 7)Rest API brings POEditor to home base.You can connect your software to POEditor with the simple API and thus forget all about handling localization files. The API allows to import terms directly to projects. 8)WordPress plugin for the satisfaction of WordPress developers.The WordPress Plugin allows to manage translations in POEditor directly from WordPress, via the POEditor API. Can assign files from your themes or plugins directly to the POEditor language files and import, export and sync them with your translations. 9)Interactive mode, for that streamlined feel.Good for boosting the focus on the translation process, the interactive mode generates a clean scroll page of untranslated terms, reducing the displayed features to the ones essential for translating. 10)Translation forecast, for strict deadlines.The Translation Forecast feature predicts the estimated completion date of your projects as a whole and of languages in particular, according to the translation pace of your project contributors. 11)Multiple popular language files support are: 1) Gettext .po and .pot

2) iOS .strings 3) Android .xml 4) Java .properties 5) Windows .resx 6) Excel .xls and .xlsx

CROWDIN: Crowdin is a translation and localization management platform that handles both documents and software projects.Localization applications are becoming a way easier to handle.It can be a delightful experience for both you and your translators. FEATURES : Online Translations: Crowdin can manage localization during or in parallel to our project development cycle.With crowdin editor we donot need to install intricate software, look for tutorials and spend a lot of time on figuring out how does it work.Crowdin is a collaborative online translation editor.It provides a full suite of easy to use tools to help translators. It acts as an innovative translational workbench.Crowdin store provides all previously translated content into a multilingual database. It is therefore not necessary to translate previously translated strings again leaving only a small component needed to be translated manually. Crowdin terminology management solutions allow you to create, store and manage all of your project terminology in one location. It is an API, Pseudolocaization and synchronization tool.It brings the light to potential problems with localization by replacing localizable strings with text that imitate the characteristics of target languages. Continuous localization :Continuous Localization is the practice where strings for localization appear frequently in the same project, usually closely associated with a Continuous Integration development strategy. With Crowdin you can handle this easily. Reduce integration problems and start developing cohesive software more rapidly. Crowdin creates a perfect workflow for teamwork. Crowdin offers an excellent rates of quality in exchange for your acknowledgment. Crowdin reports keep us aware of all the project details, activity, quality, statistics and even costs. We can then generate a custom report according to our needs. What makes Crowdin unique is the wide range of supported translation formats. Using this platform the process of building, localizing, and managing of any project or application becomes easier than ever, that makes Crowdin the most vibrant collaborative translation service on the market. For now Crowdin supports all popular localization formats and platforms together with the formats that even desktop localization applications don't support. Crowdin has professional translations too.

OTRANCE(Online Translation Centre): OTranCe offers a ready to go and entirely web based translation platform to you and your translators.The files that are already translated can be imported easily and the present stage can be exported to language packages at any time. Features: Simple installation and system requirements keep the ability to update any time unless your customization create and edit languages create and edit entries and show reference languages (configurable) easy and self explaining handling for translators grant guest access to non-translators and improve viral spreading for your project mature filter and search options over language keys and phrases get automatic translations using Google Translate (own API key needed) define the structure of exported files via templates import existing language files possibility to register new users create your own importer via interface export the present stage with a click download exported and zipped packages commit the exported files to your versioning system fine grained settings for rights and roles per user

Weblate:
Weblate is a feature rich computer aided translation tool.
Features of weblate: continuous translation customizable quality checks all the translators can be properly credited in the version control system access rights can be fine tuned depending on our environment notifications ready for cloud it supports all widely used file formats for localisation like Gettext or resource strings branches support ,i.e..it can handle different versions of the translation by pushing them to different branches automatically translation context translator can always see important context information like comments or corresponding source code glossary acquiring feedback translations can be downloaded for offline translation and merged back it supports over 150 languages out of the box, others can be defined by administrator translations are managed within same version control system as code translators have several options to review contributions made by peers weblate provides various ways to promote your translation project.