Information Hub for Linguists
2021-11-29 Update Survey Tool stage & What's new section
2021-11-23 Update to announce start of Limited Submission
2021-11-18 Added information to What's new in this cycle
Summary
This page and the pages in this section provide guidelines for translation of CLDR strings.
Please read this page completely before starting, and visit this page (Information hub for linguists) every other day, and check for news at the top. Also check the Known Issues for any new problems.
The information on this page will be updated at least weekly on Wednesdays. New information will be highlighted by blue italicized text. Please bookmark it!
If you are new to the online tool (or just want to refresh your memory), please read the Survey Tool Guide before starting. Some basic topics include:
Pick your locale
Working in the Voting view
Once you are ready, go to the Survey Tool and log in.
Current Survey Tool stage: v41 Limited Submission
Thank you for contributing to CLDR v41!
The Survey Tool is now open for Limited Submission for data to be included in CLDR v41.
Please note that the Survey Tool has only been opened for select data paths in a limited number of locales. You will not be able to contribute nor vote for items that are not enabled for this submission period.
The following locales are currently open for submission for units only:
ar, am, ca, cs, da, de, el, es, fi, fr, he, hr, hu, hy, is, it, kn, hi, lt, lv, mr, no, nl, pa, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, ta, uk, ur
Complete the Unit section, starting at: https://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/USER/Duration/
The following locales are current open for submission of all items at a basic level:
brx, ks, ks_Deva, rhg
Complete all sections, starting with: https://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/USER/Alphabetic_Information/
Please refer to the Milestone Schedule for the full v41 release schedule.
Prerequisites
Know Data stability expectations
Know topics under @Getting Started to ensure familiarity on what you may encounter working in the Survey Tool.
@General translation guides are the customary expectations for all the vetting work.
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What's new in this cycle
If you are new to CLDR contribution, please read the prerequisites above first.
If you have contributed to CLDR in the past, below is the information that's new or changed since the last release.
Limited Release
This release is limited to adding/correcting grammatical case and gender information, and to fleshing out 4 new locales (Bodo, Kashmiri (Arabic & Devanagari), and Rohingya). All other locales and rows will disallow additions. Below shows the difference between enabled rows and disabled rows.
Progress Widget
There is a new style for the progress widget that shows your voting progress on the page in the upper right corner of the Survey Tool next to the Info Panel toggle. You will see details of your progress when you hover over the widget, including what progress is being measured, and the total number of items remaining for you to vote on in that category. Your progress is measured based on the coverage level you have set, so make sure that it is set correctly.
Note: The total progress widget is currently only visible when the dashboard is open.
Page progress
Progress bar shows progress of items on page for your coverage level.
Overall progress
Progress bar shows progress of items overall for your coverage level.
Examples
The examples have been augmented, especially for Minimal pairs. An example with an ❌ shows a case where the pattern has an inappropriate placeholder substituted. That example should be ungrammatical; if it is grammatical, then either the translated unit or the minimal pair pattern itself is incorrect. The example will show in the Info Panel, and also if you hover over the item.
Recent Known Issues
Please review Known Issues section at the bottom of the page before reporting a new issue to avoid creating duplicate tickets. This list will be updated as fixes are made available in Survey Tool Production. If you hit a problem, please file a ticket.
Last updated: 2021-11-29
Recently Resolved Issues
For full list of known issues see Resolved Issues section at the bottom of the page.
Last update: 2021-11-29
Issues importing your votes. Error message: "Status 500 Internal Server Error; URL:..." [CLDR-15178]
Notation
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Survey Tool
New data
Following are new data that have been added for data collection in this release.
Grammatical Features — gathering grammatical data for additional units of measurement.
Translation quality
The following are areas where we have seen data quality issues or those that need your attention more carefully.
Avoiding voting for English
For items that do not work in your language, please don't simply use English. Find a solution that works for your language. For example, if your language doesn't have a concept of "quarters", use a translation that describes the concept "three-month period" rather than “quarter-of-a-year”.
Dealing with “Same as code” errors:
Since v37, if you voted for the Code, a Same as Code error will raise.
When translating codes for items such as languages, regions, scripts, and keys, it is normally an error to select the code itself as the translated name (such as “en” as the translated name for code “en” English), except for some specific cases including certain script codes (for example, code “Thai” is also the name for script Thai in several languages).
If the error appears under Typography, you can ignore. [CLDR-13552]
Bidi example limitations [CLDR-10674]. If you are working with a bi-directional languages, be aware of the Right-to-Left and Neutral context. Survey Tool only shows examples with a strong RL context, and we have been issues where vetters removed the ALM bidi marks or modify the patterns without considering the neutral context. Please be cautious of changing the bi-di formatting data.
Handling Display name menu variants
Translation guides
If you are new to CLDR, use the @Getting Started topics to get started and review the left Table of Contents under Translation Guides.
Updated sections
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Known Issues
Last updated: 2021-11-29
Please review this list before getting started to avoid creating duplicate tickets. This list will be updated as fixes are made available in Survey Tool Production. If you hit a problem, please file a ticket.
Expanded section in left navigation panel flickers if clicked [CLDR-14750]
Same name collision error. If two items differ only by upper/lower case or punctuation, it still counts as a collision. However, currently, only one of them is flagged as an error. [CLDR-11274]
Images for the plain symbols. Non-emoji such as €, √, », ¹, §, ... do not have images in the info pane. [CLDR-13477]
Workaround: Look at the Code column; unlike the new emoji, your browser should display them there.
Careful with square brackets. Brackets "[ ]" under Alphabetic information are used to group the alphabetic information and they are not part of the data. [CLDR-13180]
Workaround: Please ignore the [ and ] characters in the Alphabetic information and do not try to update the data to exclude the [ and ].
Resolved Issues
Last updated: 2021-11-29
The following list of previously listed on the Known Issues have now been resolved and fixed:
Issues importing your votes. Error message: "Status 500 Internal Server Error; URL:..." [CLDR-15178]