Wiki for group translation

Being active (just a bit :P) on Joomla! Arabic forum I’ve noticed the need for a mechanism that allows for “group” translation of extensions.

I thought about Version control systems (CVS/SVN) but they are not very “user-friendly”, Wikis was another option that offered many needed features like

• A good degree of user friendliness.
• Multi-user ready.
• Revisions.

But I needed a way to automatically import translation files “php files in Joomla!”, so I wrote this solution.

The current wiki system is based on DokuWiki offers the following features

• Automatic import system that breaks down large files into smaller fragments “50 line” each to allow more users to work on one file simultaneously, The system also reconstructs the file from these fragments when the user requests to download the file.
  
• Utilization of iconv to provide translated files in various encodings “Arabic for example has two popular encodings, “UTF-8 and Windows-1256″”.
  
• A status system that calculates the progress made in translation of any given file that is present on the wiki.
  
• Ability to export translation files into PO format, this feature might prove useful for translation revisers.

We’re using this Wiki for organization of Arabic translation, View a sample of the translation wiki here.

I still need to do some more modifications to the Wiki before it’s ready to be released for public.