Scratch

Hi there 
Probably Andrés already told you that I translated the Scratch Getting Started into German and French. My French version might be full of mistakes since I my French isn't that good... So, if you know somebody who perfectly speaks French, would you ask this person to correct the material I translated? (also the French version of ScratchR?)
(or is there someone around who would like to do this job?)

Today I got the rest of the layout files for the Scratch Cards. If I have enough time, I will translate them in German and French as well. Remaking all the screenshots takes most of the time, I guess. Moreover, I had a lot of problems with the text layers in the Scratchcards. I wasn't able to edit the text (since each character had its own path...), so I had to create new text boxes... I don't know if this is my fault or if something broke somewhere else...

We should think about how we include all this new material in the ScratchR-website... It would be really nice if we had some kind of wiki. In a wiki, we could publish materials, we could discuss how to translate new text strings in Scratch, each member would have the chance to write a little bit about himself on a personal page and so on. 
I got the impression that the forum gets more and more too messy...
What do you think about that?

Many regards from Switzerland

Kevin Caluser

P.S. I translated the FAQ into German (French is coming soon). You can look at them in the German section of this forum. It was rather hard to do that since there is a FAQ forum and a FAQ-page...

I think that a Scratch documentation wiki is a great idea.

It would provide a much better place to put FAQ information, Scratch secrets, and tutorials than these forums do, since the forums are hard to search and information is spread out over many different messages and threads.

A wiki would allow keeping similar ideas together and amplifying them with pictures and projects.

The Forums would still be useful as a place to ask questions, discuss potential new features, and have social interaction, but many of the questions could be answered with a quick link to the appropriate Wiki article.  When a new question comes up, it could trigger someone to write a new wiki article, or at least add a new example to an existing article.

Having some tutorials in the wiki would also help with the frequent question "how do I write a game in Scratch?"

We have a lot of talented people (adults, teens, and children) contributing to the forums now, so I think that there is the critical mass needed to keep a wiki alive.

I am testing a wiki called Deki Wiki. It has a very easy to use WYSIWYG interface. I haven't had the time to play with it that much but I am planning to move all the static pages such as http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/languages and others like that to the Wiki. Go to the Deki Wiki to learn more about it and let me know what you think :-)

Do you already know the page from Alex Olinger? He has translated the Scratch 1.1 - Reference into German.

[Links works now]

Last edited by catze (2007-12-12 04:25:21)

adlogi wrote:

The following materials are now available in ARABIC:

The Scratch Getting Started guide:
http://www.aoi.org.sy/adlogi/scratch/ScratchGettingStarted_arabic.pdf

The Scratch V 1.1 Help Screens (I hope the new blocks screens will be added soon):
http://www.aoi.org.sy/adlogi/scratch/scratch1.1HelpScreens.htm

If any is interested in reviewing my translation, his help will be appreciated.

Abdulrahman

Thank you Abdulrahman!  I will post these on the Scratch in Many Languages page.

We are currently talking to someone about translating the Scratch interface to Arabic, would you be interested in helping out with this effort?

Thanks for your time,
Evelyn
MIT Scratch Team

catze wrote:

Do you already know the page from Alex Olinger? He has translated the Scratch 1.1 - Reference into German.

The first link seems to be dead.

Thanks for the PDF!  I will add this to the Scratch in Many Languages page later this afternoon.

Evelyn

Hi Evelyn,

here are some other helpfull ressources in german language for you international Scratch-Links:

Deutsche Übersetzung der Anleitung zu Scratch von ''Alex Olinger''
http://www.olinger.net/Scratch.html

Scratch im Unterricht für Jahrgangsstufe 7, hinterlegt auf ''Digitale Schule Bayern''
http://digitale-schule-bayern.de/dsdaten/285/51.pdf
http://signalbscw.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/bscw.cgi/d194654/ScratchInf7-Schlager.pdf


Beispielhafte und prämierte Scratch-Unterrichts-Einheit von Ralf Romeike
Gewinner des Unterrichtswettbewerb der 12. GI-Fachtagung "Informatik und Schule - INFOS 2007".
http://www.funlearning.de/

Martin
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Fröhliches Scratchen!

I think it is important to plan what we want to provide on the wiki. What about creating some kind of "table of contents"

Do you guys from the MIT already have some ideas what you will put in the wiki?
Probably you could start with the same settings as Wikipedia (everbody can read and write everything). When you see that it doesn't work, you can easyily change the settings.
Or like this: everyone can write but the changes are waiting for a moderator to be released... The moderator can decide if a change to a wiki entry is published or not. Like in some guestbooks...

I looked at my po-file for the website and it showed me 1061 text strings... About 334 strings belong to the pages (ans some of them are really long)... Noone wants to translate so many strings... The Scratch-file contains about 500 strings... That takes some time as well, but the strings are short! So, I'm really, really really looking forward to the wiki!!!!

evhan55 wrote:

adlogi wrote:

The following materials are now available in ARABIC:

The Scratch Getting Started guide:
http://www.aoi.org.sy/adlogi/scratch/ScratchGettingStarted_arabic.pdf

The Scratch V 1.1 Help Screens (I hope the new blocks screens will be added soon):
http://www.aoi.org.sy/adlogi/scratch/scratch1.1HelpScreens.htm

If any is interested in reviewing my translation, his help will be appreciated.

Abdulrahman

Thank you Abdulrahman!  I will post these on the Scratch in Many Languages page.

We are currently talking to someone about translating the Scratch interface to Arabic, would you be interested in helping out with this effort?

Thanks for your time,
Evelyn
MIT Scratch Team

Dear Evelyn, Please count me in to assist in the Arabic translation, if help is still needed. Thank you for such a wonderful educational tool. I wish to also thank Abdulrahman for all the good work he has done to translate the support material.

Regards,
Hazim

MarcusM wrote:

evhan55 wrote:

If you know of any other translated materials, please post them to this forum so we may add them to that website.

I wrote a paper in Dutch about Scratch, how do I upload the PDF?

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for offering us your translated Scratch materials.
We have just set up a new wiki on the website where people can upload documents and web links to Scratch resources in other languages.

Your PDF file would be perfect for inclusion on this wiki page:
http://scratch.wik.is/Support/In_many_languages/Nederlands_%2f%2f_Dutch

However, right now the wiki is closed to editors as we are in a beta phase with the wiki.
If you would like, you can email the PDF file directly to me at evhan55@gmail.com, and I will upload it to the wiki for you.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.
Also, we will keep everyone updated once the wiki is open to edits by all.

Thanks again,
Evelyn
MIT Scratch Team

egastelu wrote:

Comparto con ustedes un sitio en español sobre SCRATCH con guías y ejemplos. está en
http://edu.mec.gub.uy/banco%20de%20recursos/webscratch/index.htm

Gracias y saludos

Muchas gracias!

Hemos puesto su pagina en nuestra pagina de materiales Scratch en Español:

Scratch Materials in Spanish

- Evelyn

Hola! !
Have you found a Spanish translator?

I would love to work on it, although response time will be slow because it would be done on my spare time.

Please let me know.