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Firespeaker: /* Other ways to help */

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Other ways to help

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Other projects

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Other

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About This Tutorial

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Other: cat

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Post-edit: parenthesis

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Convert dictionaries

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Convert dictionaries

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format

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Other: another stray 'mentor'

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 ** Correct them.
 *Ask on IRC or the mailing list (or, if you have one, your mentor) if there is another way to help.
+* You can also help us with [[Apertium-html-tools#Localisation|website localisation]]!
 ===Other projects===

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 * [http://omegawiki.org OmegaWiki] (Creative Commons BY & GNU FDL)
 * [http://tatoeba.org Tatoeba] (Creative Commons BY-SA)
+* [https://www.wiktionary.org/ Wiktionary] (Creative Commons BY & GNU FDL)
+We often use the data from these projects in our dictionaries, so by contributing to them, you are contributing to Apertium :-)
 [[Category:Documentation]]

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 However, the difficult part is not getting it into this XML format, but getting each pair of verbs, and the important information for each pair (here: aspect), and making sure it is <i>consistent</i> and machine-readable.
-===Other===
+===Other ways to help===
-;Other ways to help.
 * If you find mistakes in translation or pending test.
 ** [[Contact|Let us know!]].
 ** Correct them.
 *Ask on IRC or the mailing list (or, if you have one, your mentor) if there is another way to help.
+===Other projects===
+If you want to contribute to a free/open-source language resources project, but Apertium doesn't quite fit your intentions, here are some other resources:
+* [http://omegawiki.org OmegaWiki] (Creative Commons BY & GNU FDL)
+* [http://tatoeba.org Tatoeba] (Creative Commons BY-SA)
 [[Category:Documentation]]

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 * How to convert dictionaries.
 * How to translate.
-* How to help "Apertium" in other ways .
+* How to help "Apertium" in other ways.
 ===Basics===

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 ** Correct them.
 *Ask on IRC or the mailing list (or, if you have one, your mentor) if there is another way to help.
+[[Category:Documentation]]

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 Related to the above: post-edit an Apertium translation, and provide us with the result. Having a set of corrections to refer to can help us to refine the translator. We are particularly interested in Open Content text (text under Free licences, such as the GNU FDL or CC BY/BY-SA), which we can freely redistribute, and translations that are under a similar licence.
-Even better, if you have used a Translation Memory (such as [http://www.omegat.org OmegaT], providing us with the TMX can help us in a variety of ways.
+Even better, if you have used a Translation Memory (such as [http://www.omegat.org OmegaT]), providing us with the TMX can help us in a variety of ways.
 ===Convert dictionaries===

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 Bulgarian&rarr;Russian
+Say you've found a Bulgarian-Russion dictionary, and it says that the imperfective verb обяснява translates into the imperfective обяснять, while the perfective напише translates into the perfective написать, the converted version of this should look like:
 <pre>
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 <e><p><l>напише<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/><s n="tv"/></l><r>написать<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/></r></p></e>
 </pre>
+However, the difficult part is not getting it into this XML format, but getting each pair of verbs, and the important information for each pair (here: aspect), and making sure it is <i>consistent</i> and machine-readable.
 ===Other===

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 * If you have friends who speak the language, ask for their help.
 * Look in a dictionary.
-** You can buy a dictionary, they are not very expansive.
+** You can buy a dictionary, they are not very expensive.
 ** You can search for a free dictionary on the web.
 ** It's a good idea to do both.

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 Bulgarian&rarr;Russian
+<pre>
-<nowiki> <e><p><l>обяснява<s n="vblex"/><s n="imperf"/><s n="tv"/></l><r>обяснять<s n="vblex"/><s n="imperf"/></r></p></e>  </nowiki>
+<e><p><l>обяснява<s n="vblex"/><s n="imperf"/><s n="tv"/></l><r>обяснять<s n="vblex"/><s n="imperf"/></r></p></e>
-<nowiki> <e><p><l>напише<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/><s n="tv"/></l><r>написать<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/></r></p></e> </nowiki>
+<e><p><l>напише<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/><s n="tv"/></l><r>написать<s n="vblex"/><s n="perf"/></r></p></e>
+</pre>
 ===Other===