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Translations of the MOOC #31

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pcmasuzzo opened this issue May 1, 2019 · 3 comments

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commented May 1, 2019

In the spirit of being as inclusive and diverse as possible, the idea is to have the MOOC content available in other languages other than English.

First discussion has happened in the Slack room: https://osmooc.herokuapp.com/, where the following channels have been created for 5 languages:
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  1. #translation-it - ITALIAN
  2. #translation-ch - CHINESE
  3. #translation_pt-br - PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN
  4. #translation_es - SPANISH
  5. #translation_fr - FRENCH

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The channels can be used to set dedicated translation teams.

Before hacking this, we should agree on the translation strategy though.

For example:

  • Do we create separate MOOCs for the other languages?
  • Do we make captions and only translate the video materials?
  • Do we find a way to integrate other languages into the existing EN content?
    Etc.
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commented May 1, 2019

Thanks for getting this started, @pcmasuzzo!

So, there are multiple ways to potentially approach this. Having core teams per translation is a good first step, gauging what sort of interest there is and how to spread the potential workload.

What seems to be possible on YouTube at least is that you can just add subtitles easily to the videos https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?lang=it&ref=player&action_choose_add_method=1&v=CNKt8B07Kwg&ar=2 in Italian for example here (I hope the link works). There should be an option on each video to add subtitles manually, and then just follow the instructions within YouTube. It looks fairly simple, providing you can, er, do the translations. Coming from a monolingual person...
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commented May 1, 2019

Subtitles on YT seem a good start to me. Leaving also the chance to learn from the original language...
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commented May 1, 2019

Note that the location of the scripts for Module 5 are here: https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC/Module-5-Open-Research-Software-and-Open-Source/tree/master/content_development

and here for Module 1: https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC/Module-1-Open-Principles/tree/master/content_development (all in English for now)
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