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Eric Gundersen

Apr 20, 2010

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Data.WorldBank.org Launched Today on Drupal

This is just the start of the World Bank's open data initiative

Signaling the most aggressive open data push in the international development community to date, World Bank President Robert Zoellick launched Data.WorldBank.org this morning ahead of the organization's spring meeting. All of the World Bank's 2,000...
AJ Ashton

Apr 13, 2010

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Designing Desaturated and Multilingual Iraq Maps

Custom, multilingual tile set of Iraq now available on MapBox

We just finished a custom tile set for UNICEF's "An Iraq Fit For Children" campaign. This campaign surveyed hundreds of Iraqi children to learn how they feel about themselves, their communities, and the future of their country. Part of the website...
Robert Soden

Mar 4, 2010

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Yahoo! Placemaker Geotagging Integration in Managing News

To better tag content in multilingual versions of Managing News

We just added support for Yahoo! Placemaker's geo-recognition service to Managing News. This is an optional replacement for the default place-term lookup feature and can be enabled and configured in the administration section of Managing News. For...
Jose Reyero

Mar 23, 2009

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A "Multilingual Friendly" Drupal 7 and a New i18n Stable Release for Drupal 6

Recently I’ve been working on Drupal 7 core to make it more “multilingual friendly,” as well as on a new Internationalization release for Drupal 6 that has some needed features. In this post, I’ll update you on where we are...
Ian Cairns

Jan 6, 2009

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EMBARQ.org: Using Drupal's Translation Tools and Installer Profiles to Empower a Global Network

World Resource Institute's EMBARQ Program Moves to Drupal For Better Branding, Content Sharing, and Multilingual Content Producing

We recently launched a new website for a program at the World Resources Institute called EMBARQ, which works with cities in the developing world to implement sustainable transportation projects. Along with their base in Washington, DC, EMBARQ has...
Will White

Jun 17, 2008

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Editing Multilingual Video Captions Using a CCK Field in Drupal

Improving the Workflow and Usability of Multilingual Video Subtitles

Last week I posted about adding multilingual subtitles to video content using JW FLV Media Player and Drupal. The workflow I described involves attaching a W3C Timed-Text XML file to a node using an upload form. It’s great for initial...
Will White

Jun 5, 2008

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Adding Multilingual Subtitles to Videos in Drupal with the JW FLV Media Player

Make Video More Content More Accessible

We're working on a site build for a client who publishes an enormous amount of text content in six different languages. Their collection of videos, however, is currently only available on the English version of the site. Since the videos are very...
Ian Ward

Mar 24, 2008

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Fantastic RTL Support in Drupal

Getting Webforms Into Arabic and Other Right-to-Left Languages

Ever think about trying out Drupal's right-to-left (RTL) language support for languages like Arabic or Hebrew? We got to test it out for a project we're working on with the SEEP Network, a support system for microfinance and microenterprise...
Jose Reyero

Feb 26, 2008

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The Drupal i18n Saga Continues. Here's Drupal 6 i18n!

How the Internationalization Package Will Help with Translations

There have been some big advances made in multilanguage support in the latest release of Drupal. As you may have seen, Drupal 6 is multilingual, and it really does a nice job of handling languages and content translations. However, it does still...
Jose Reyero

Jan 14, 2008

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Crowd Sourcing Drupal Translations: Meet the New Localization Server

Improving UI Translations Means Greater Usability

Lately we’ve been spending a lot of time on improving the usability of our tools by designing more straightforward user interfaces, building more intuitive workflows, and making sure we’re displaying all the right messages in the right places. But...

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