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# English translationAcademy
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## Overview
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translationAcademy is intended to enable anyone, anywhere to equip themselves so that they will be able to make high-quality translations of biblical content into their own language. translationAcademy is designed to be highly flexible. It can be used in a systematic, in-advance approach or it can be used for just-in-time learning (or both, as needed). It is modular in structure.
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translationAcademy was developed by the [Door43 World Missions Community](https://door43.org) in conjunction with [Wycliffe Associates](http://www.wycliffeassociates.org/). The entire project is made
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available under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), see the [LICENSE](https://git.door43.org/Door43/en-ta/src/master/LICENSE.md) file for more information.
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Please use the [issue queue](https://git.door43.org/Door43/en-ta/issues) to provide feedback or suggestions for improvement.
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## Resources
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If you want to download English translationAcademy to use, go here: https://unfoldingword.org/academy/. tA is also included in [tS](http://ufw.io/ts) and [tC](http://ufw.io/tc).
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## Contributing or Translating
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### Explanation of the content file layout
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Each manual has it's own directory in this repository (for example, the Checking Manual is in the checking directory). The content of the files are in a hybrid YAML/markdown format, beginning with a YAML header followed by the body of the article in markdown.
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YAML is a markup language that is compact and easy to read. The YAML header bounded on the top and bottom by `---`. Each line within the header is a key-value pair, with the key and the value separated by a colon. Because the key is used by the publishing process, __it should never be translated or changed.__ Some of the values can be translated, and those are enumerated below in the instructions for translating.
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Following the YAML header is the body of the article, which uses a format called "markdown." If you aren't familiar with markdown, you may find this [markdown tutorial](http://www.markdowntutorial.com/) helpful. Also, this README file, the one you are reading now, is written in markdown.
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### Before you get started translating
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* DO NOT RENAME ANY FILES. The name of the file is the same as the slug and is used to link the file to other files.
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* If you do any translation work, be sure to put your name in the `CONTRIBUTORS.md` file.
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* The `LICENSE.md` file does not need to be translated or modified.
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### Images
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Images that are included in tA should be no more than 600px wide.
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### Instructions for translating translationAcademy
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__The instructions for translating `meta.yaml` (metadata) and `toc.yaml` (table of contents) are included in the header of those files.__
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The first step is to __fork this repository.__ When you do this, change the name of the repository to start with your language code rather than
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`en`.
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When translating the files for each manual:
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* In the YAML header, you are free to translate the values following the `title`, `question` and `credits` keys. __DO NOT TRANSLATE THE KEYS__.
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None of the other values should be translated. They contain slugs that are used to identify this article and to link it to other articles.
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* Translating hyperlinks: Hyperlinks (links to other articles or to other pages on the internet) follow this pattern,
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```
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[text to display](http://www.example.com)
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```
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You can translate the "text to display" inside the square brackets but not the web address that follows inside the parentheses.
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You are free to add additional pages. In order for the new page to be included when tA is published, all of the following conditions need to be satisfied:
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1. You must create a directory in one of the manual directories (like the translate directory) that has the short name of the module you want to write. For example, to create a new module on "testing" in the Translation Manual, you will want to put the file in "translate/testing/01.md".
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1. The file must be included in the table of contents, `toc.yaml` for the appropriate manual.
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1. The value of the slug in the YAML header and the file name (without the extension) must be the same as the directory name.
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1. The slug must be unique, and not used in any of the other tA repositories. This is a requirement so that it is possible to create unambiguous links to articles in other tA manuals.
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## Historical
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If you would like to see the deprecated tranlsationAcademy pages in DokuWiki, go to https://dw.door43.org/en/ta. You can still see the workbench pages at https://dw.door43.org/en/ta/workbench.
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