Translating your site

[dfidler]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering how you multi-language sites translate your boards.

I've started a site that I want to translate into 3 other languages (french, german, spanish) using people from the community as translators. However, I have the following problems:

1. I don't know the translators very well and so I don't want to give them unfettered access to the phrases for fear of them screwing up
2. Because of #1, I'd like to implement an approval queue for the text
3. Not all phrases will make sense out of context so I'm wondering if there is a way to give translators the context that they need to do a proper translation.

Now, I know that there are language packs available, but I have a lot of phrases that are not 'stock' vb phrases (I've coded a fair bit of custom functionality already).

Does anyone know if there's something out there that can help me solve the above problems? If not, I'm going to write my own and would probably release it to the community (if anyone would even find it at all useful).

Cheers,
Dave.