Using AMOS tool for language pack translation

A good suggestion Luca.

A translation memory (TM) would be good to have - for all translation work on Moodle by the way. It would make consistency a lot easier.

A short list of agreements per language could be a good step forward  (formal / informal / ... etc.). Would it be an idea to start a page in the docs for this? I can imagine that current language pack maintainers can easily come op with recommendations for their own language. Some of them are keeping an eye on that for over a decade - a lot of experience there. That way, the speak on Moodle pages have the most chance to be consistent with the Moodle software.

FYI In French a new child language pack is started: French inclusive / Français (écriture inclusive) to address the gender diversity issue.

Kind regards

Koen

Hi

we have an ongoing discussion about formal language aspects in lang packages here in Germany and I think also in Switzerland and Austria.

From the very beginning we  translated the German package with both gender forms 'Trainer/in' for teacher that includes female and male form. Over the time Ralf Krause worked  in the package and replaced forms where a gender form is not required.  This form is conform with the official grammar rules for German. Moodle is used in schools and universities and should use the official grammar rules.

Its a very political and controversal discussion about the best way. Since some time Alex worked for a  client on a de_gender package that uses asterics 'Trainer*in'.  This form is not accepted from National institute for the German language but specially some universities are using this form. There is a critic that this form is not inclusive and accessible.

It also exists a language package that is using only the male form 'Trainer' and argues that this is the default version and includes male and female.  

An other question is the formal or informal 'you' (in German du/sie). What should we use on moodle.com. I think both is possible. 

Hello Ralf. I am passing on these messages from Abby and the Marketing team so I won't know all the answers. However I think the date information is for their internal use only,  not for translators. I assume they want translators to add their names to avoid any conflict if more than one translator works on the document at the same time?

Hi Ralf

You mentioning "Pädagog/innen, Trainer/innen, Systemadministrator/innen" makes it seem like there's a consent over this.
Allow me to mention that also "Pädagog*innen, Trainer*innen, Systemadministrator*innen" is a possible choice.
I've known some institutions have taken it up in their regulations that gender conform wording is expressed through the asterisk notation.

So, is there already consent, if so, where has it been reached?
Or, if there isn't one, how to achieve consent?

Half of the strings using Trainer/innen and the other half using Trainer*innen doesn't look too good either…

Best,
Luca