correcting a misspelled danish word

jens-solvang
Being a newcomer to this program, I do not know the right way of telling mistakes. Here is a mistake:
In the info of an item, I can see that the danisk word "udgave" is misspelled. The wrong word is udgavve. I think the english is edition.
Please correct.
Can I do it myself? Where is the danish languagefile?

Best wishes. Jens Sovang DK
  • dstillman
    Fixed.

    https://github.com/zotero/zotero/commit/7e5ec21781bcef898b0c086416d24a88e0fa701a

    Thanks.
  • NEWille
    The misspelling has not been changed in the file that ships with the Standalone version.

    But this file (and the version referred above), as well as the file that controls output in Danish, has so many other mispellings, bad translations and mistakes that I would recommend everyone to switch to the English versions. That's what I will tell my students.

    But of course this is not the right solution. The files have to be revised be someone competent in Danish as well as Library and Information Science. I would happily volunteer but since I am a newcomer to Zotero I would not know how go about it or which other files might be infected.

    Niels Erik Wille
    Senior Lecturer (emeritus), Roskilde University, DK
  • adamsmith
    Translations have moved to transifex, which has a nice interface and makes helping out easy:
    https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/zotero/
    There is no one working on Danish translations yet, so your help would be very welcome.
  • NEWille
    I have looked (briefly) at the stuff there. It's a challenge.

    I will probably have a go. But I can't (and will not) do any real work till I have a better grasp of how the files link together and their links with other files within the system.

    It seems something of a jungle to identify proper documentation of the citation language ane the way it is used within Zotero.

    Well jungles are for exploration? Or is there a map?

    Niels Erik Wille
  • adamsmith
    The Citation Style Language (CSL) is an entirely different topic.
    CSL is a project separate from Zotero and used in several other programs, hence the different translations.
    The terms for CSL are defined here:
    https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales
    It's a little harder to work with than transifex (any correction would have to be in the form of an updated .xml file)
    and no, unfortunately there is no full documentation for how the terms are used. I agree there should be, but it's a lot of work and all of the people involved in the CSL project. In my experience, 90-95% of the terms are pretty clear, for the remaining 5% ask and/or use your best judgment.

    As for translating the Software itself (that's the part on transifex) - the best way to do that is with the English software intalled, so you can check where a specific term/phrase is used. Again - 90% should be pretty clear, for the rest you'll have to look at the context.
  • aurimas
    While we're sort of on the topic, I think transifex supports comment fields for dtd. It would probably be very helpful to supply the context for the translations. This may actually already be done for some translations, but giving it a quick glance I didn't see any. It's quite a bit of work to just go through the files and annotate, but perhaps as people are doing translations, they could write down context for more tricky ones and it can be slowly filled in.

    Maybe after we finish translator cleanup, I'll localize Zotero to Lithuanian and fill in the context.
  • NEWille
    I have started the translation into Danish using Transifex as recommended above.

    See further discussion of problems relating to the Danish version af the Zotero client in :Danish translation of the Zotero client.

    NEWille
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