Numista in Portuguese, Italian and Russian

Hello,

I'm really happy to announce that three new languages have been launched today. The website is now also available in Portuguese, Italian and Russian. 

Thanks a lot to all the people who contributed to the translation!

Translators for Portuguese: @bennycunha97, @Geison, @leopiccionia, @maor1973, @Mickael.,  @monge, @ramgu2005 and @vladthiengo.

Translators for Italian: @cobrapel, @GiannaReggio, @loruca, @Lucazeo, @Ramons78 and @The Judge.

Translators for Russian: @romanz, @subr.

The translations are not fully complete yet, as it takes a huge effort to translate all the catalogue entities, but we thought it's good to make available what is already there, to facilitate browsing for people who are not comfortable with the languages we had so far. The translation will continue. Feel free to help in separate forum threads.

Similar to what we have for Spanish and German, only the catalogue entities are translated. The content specific to each item in the catalogue is not editable in the newly added languages. Only an automatic translation is provided.
Also, we made the choice not to open specific forum sections for the three new languages. They will share the English forum for the moment.

Excellent news, Xavier! 
 

Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate access to Numista for more people around the world!

Pleasure to help!

Would it be possible to choose which language version shall be used as a main one without a need of constant changing of the language in the menu? There is an option “Favorite language” in settings that works incorrectly now

Grinya

Would it be possible to choose which language version shall be used as a main one without a need of constant changing of the language in the menu? There is an option “Favorite language” in settings that works incorrectly now

To help solving the issue, could you please advise how you usually access Numista? Maybe it's just a matter of changing your bookmark from https://en.numista.com to https://ru.numista.com.

I just enter the first two letters of address ("nu") in Chrome and go forward by the link https://numista.com/

Then address is changing to https://ru.numista.com/ instead of https://en.numista.com/ as it shall be by the account settings

When you access https://numista.com/, the language is determined based on your browser settings. We currently don't have a way to authenticate you and check your preference before the redirection happens. If you would like to get the English version, I suggest you type en.numista.com.

Good news for Numista!

Are there any long-term plans to extend the translations and include coin descriptions and titles in these languages?

Coin descriptions will be autotranslated overnight.

Xavier

When you access https://numista.com/, the language is determined based on your browser settings. We currently don't have a way to authenticate you and check your preference before the redirection happens. If you would like to get the English version, I suggest you type en.numista.com.

Thanks. Will make a bookmark. It seems to work correctly

Basteros

Good news for Numista!

Are there any long-term plans to extend the translations and include coin descriptions and titles in these languages?

Maintaining titles and descriptions in many languages is quite tricky. I believe our current process are not well suited for multiple languages. There are several ways to improve that in the future:

• Make more and more fields language-independent, like we recently did for denominations. This way the translation can be managed at a higher level and it doesn't need to be done coin by coin. Series will probably be the next field which will benefit from that. Even descriptions could partially benefit from that, with the idea of having a thesaurus of design elements.
• The coin title could also somehow be language-indepedent. We need to continue the analysis about how to generate titles automatically or at least partially automatically.
• If we want to open descriptions of individual coin descriptions in multiple languages, we'll need an easier way to translate than what we currently have with a separate form per language and a review by issuer referees, as we can't expect referees to master all the languages of Numista.

Xavier

Maintaining titles and descriptions in many languages is quite tricky. I believe our current process are not well suited for multiple languages. There are several ways to improve that in the future:

• Make more and more fields language-independent, like we recently did for denominations. This way the translation can be managed at a higher level and it doesn't need to be done coin by coin. Series will probably be the next field which will benefit from that. Even descriptions could partially benefit from that, with the idea of having a thesaurus of design elements.
• The coin title could also somehow be language-indepedent. We need to continue the analysis about how to generate titles automatically or at least partially automatically.
• If we want to open descriptions of individual coin descriptions in multiple languages, we'll need an easier way to translate than what we currently have with a separate form per language and a review by issuer referees, as we can't expect referees to master all the languages of Numista.

I think it's a good idea to make the fields language-independent. I wonder how this will work for the descriptions. To automate the titles, I think it will be possible for coins, but probably more complicated with exonumia.

Xavier

Basteros

Good news for Numista!

Are there any long-term plans to extend the translations and include coin descriptions and titles in these languages?

Maintaining titles and descriptions in many languages is quite tricky. I believe our current process are not well suited for multiple languages. There are several ways to improve that in the future:

• Make more and more fields language-independent, like we recently did for denominations. This way the translation can be managed at a higher level and it doesn't need to be done coin by coin. Series will probably be the next field which will benefit from that. Even descriptions could partially benefit from that, with the idea of having a thesaurus of design elements.
• The coin title could also somehow be language-indepedent. We need to continue the analysis about how to generate titles automatically or at least partially automatically.
• If we want to open descriptions of individual coin descriptions in multiple languages, we'll need an easier way to translate than what we currently have with a separate form per language and a review by issuer referees, as we can't expect referees to master all the languages of Numista.

Possibly it will be a good idea to have an option for  referees to correct some fields of multiply coins from catalogue in excel-like table form to be able to quickly change multiply translation (and not only) errors. Now the only way is to open and correct each coin page individually. 

Thanks for the update and thanks to everyone for the work done!

Luca.

Xavier

 

 

Similar to what we have for Spanish and German, only the catalogue entities are translated. The content specific to each item in the catalogue is not editable in the newly added languages. Only an automatic translation is provided.
Also, we made the choice not to open specific forum sections for the three new languages. They will share the English forum for the moment.

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Parabéns Numista!