Facebook in your language?

[FMLRP]

Kevin,

We use Facebook quite a bit to connect with our young learners. By young we mean ages 12-40. I would like more information in how to translate/transfer Facebook into our language. We use the English alphabet.

Please let me know if you can help.
Natalie Diaz
Fort Mojave Language Recovery

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On Feb 23, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Kevin Scannell <kscanne at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
>  I'm sure many of you remember Neskie Manuel who used to be a member
> of this list before his tragic passing last year.  Neskie had a great
> software project underway called "secwepemc-facebook".  Like all of
> his projects it was open source, and so you can read his description
> on github, here:
> 
> https://github.com/neskie/secwepemc-facebook
> 
>   In short, it involves some clever JavaScript to allow Facebook to
> be translated into his language of Secwepemctsín, despite the fact
> that it isn't one of the 100 or so languages supported by the site.  I
> think this is a game-changing idea for indigenous languages - with
> Neskie's approach there's no need to "ask permission" or have some
> engineer flip a switch on a remote server to allow you to start
> translating a web site.
> 
>  A couple of days ago I finished a rewrite of Neskie's code to work
> with the new Facebook design, and generalized so that it should now
> work with any language (although I'm not sure about RTL scripts yet).
> The response has been great in just the last two days - 6 languages
> have complete translations already: Haitian Creole, Nawat (< 100
> speakers), Chichewa, Kriol (Australia), Hiligaynon, and Scottish
> Gaelic.  5 more are underway.  If you're interested, please send me a
> message off list and I can provide more details on how to do this for
> your language.   We're not aiming at complete translations - right now
> just 125 or so of the most common navigation elements, so "most" of
> what you see should be translated.
> 
> Míle buíochas/thanks
> 
> Kevin