English and Spanish wikibooks from CK12 : translation help wanted

[Samuel Klein]

Hello,

Josh Gay (w:user:Joshuagay) is currently working at CK12 on developing
dozens of CC-BY math and science books for high-school and late
primary students. Their current books are all English texts. They
are also working with a small group to translate some of them into
Spanish.

* CK12 would like to make these works available to Wikibooks (they
already are in one sense, but in another they're only directly
exportable as PDFs).

They use a cutsomized mediawiki for their internal platform, with
Semantic MediaWiki, a second custom-made math parser-function for
better math rendering, &c. So there are some minor hurdles to be
overcome before the underlying wikitexts can be shared directly.

* Josh is looking for help with their translation process,
particularly into Spanish, and would like to work with some Spanish
Wikibooks editors and others to design a friendly toolset and process
to make translation easier. (hopefully this process will be available
to wikibooks in general, and will make translation easier all around)

Feel free to discuss here or get in touch with Josh directly (copied
here) if you can help with import or translation.

Cheers,
Sam.

[Aaron Adrignola]

Ironically, not too long ago I discovered CK-12's web site and began the
process of bringing them in to English Wikibooks, since the licensing is
compatible and we could use some complete books at Wikibooks. I've been
alternating that with general maintenance, but if it'd be easier to
translate from English Wikibooks to Spanish Wikibooks than from the
English-language PDFs to Spanish Wikibooks, I can make it a higher priority
to get the conversion from PDF to wikitext done.

This is the portal I made for them: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CK-12_Books

I'm afraid that I cannot help with language translation, however.

Sincerely,

Aaron Adrignola

Post by Samuel Klein
Hello,
Josh Gay (w:user:Joshuagay) is currently working at CK12 on developing
dozens of CC-BY math and science books for high-school and late
primary students. Their current books are all English texts. They
are also working with a small group to translate some of them into
Spanish.
* CK12 would like to make these works available to Wikibooks (they
already are in one sense, but in another they're only directly
exportable as PDFs).
They use a cutsomized mediawiki for their internal platform, with
Semantic MediaWiki, a second custom-made math parser-function for
better math rendering, &c. So there are some minor hurdles to be
overcome before the underlying wikitexts can be shared directly.
* Josh is looking for help with their translation process,
particularly into Spanish, and would like to work with some Spanish
Wikibooks editors and others to design a friendly toolset and process
to make translation easier. (hopefully this process will be available
to wikibooks in general, and will make translation easier all around)
Feel free to discuss here or get in touch with Josh directly (copied
here) if you can help with import or translation.
Cheers,
Sam.
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