BETA TYPO3 extension by Digital Umuganda

Publish every page in English and Kinyarwanda.

Typosema translates whole TYPO3 pages with Digital Umuganda's own neural translation engine. Review side by side, fix what you need, and publish without ever leaving the backend.

Install for TYPO3 See how it works

Native TYPO3 page integration
Nothing goes live without review
English and Kinyarwanda for now (more languages coming soon)

PAGE TREE / Web / Typosema / ServicesSearch pages

Services

Draft translation, not visible on the live site

English → KinyarwandaTranslate this page

FIELD	ORIGINAL	TRANSLATION	STATUS
Page title	Our services	Serivisi zacu	Translated
SEO description	Find the public services you need in one place.	Shakisha serivisi za leta zikwiriye ahantu hamwe.	Translated
Body text	We help citizens access services. Read our guide.	Dufasha abaturage kubona serivisi. Soma umuhanzuro wacu.	Translated
Image alt text	Citizens at a service desk	Abaturage ku meza ya serivisi	Translated
Table caption	From 8:00 to 17:00 (closed on public holidays)	Edit this field manually	Needs manual

FIELD

ORIGINAL

TRANSLATION

STATUS

Page title

Our services

Serivisi zacu

Translated

SEO description

Find the public services you need in one place.

Shakisha serivisi za leta zikwiriye ahantu hamwe.

Translated

Body text

We help citizens access services. Read our guide.

Dufasha abaturage kubona serivisi. Soma umuhanzuro wacu.

Translated

Image alt text

Citizens at a service desk

Abaturage ku meza ya serivisi

Translated

Table caption

From 8:00 to 17:00 (closed on public holidays)

Edit this field manually

Needs manual

5 fields · 4 translated · 1 needs manualSave draftPublish translation

Flagged: never silently broken Links & formatting kept intact

1 clickto draft a whole page: titles, SEO fields and every content block.

0 setupfor language menus, URLs, SEO tags and caching. TYPO3 does it already.

Every fieldis reviewed by a person before anything reaches the live site.

1 jobto translate an entire section of your site in the background.

How it works

From an English page to a Kinyarwanda page in three steps.

No new system to learn. Editors stay in the page tree they already use. Typosema adds one module and one button.

Translate

Open any page, pick Kinyarwanda and click Translate this page. Titles, SEO fields and every content block go to the engine in the background. The live site doesn't change.

Review

See the original and the draft side by side, field by field, and edit anything right there. If the engine couldn't handle something cleanly, it's flagged Needs manual: never quietly left broken.

Publish

Publish when it reads right. Because Typosema fills TYPO3's own language mechanics, menus, URLs, SEO tags and caching work straight away.

Features

Careful with everything that isn't a word.

Machine translation is good at words and bad at structure. Typosema keeps the two apart, so links, tables, media and layouts come out exactly as they went in.

ORIGINAL
<p>We help citizens access services. Read our <a href="/guide">guide</a>.</p>
TRANSLATION
<p>Dufasha abaturage kubona serivisi. Soma <a href="/guide">umuhanzuro</a>.</p>

Structure-safe translation

Before anything is sent, Typosema separates the visible text from the markup around it. Only the words are translated, then put back exactly where they came from. Links, tables and styling stay untouched.

Media carries over

Images, videos and files attached to the page are brought across automatically. Their captions, alt text and titles are translated too, instead of staying in English.

Nested layouts, in order

Two- and three-column containers translate correctly at any depth. Typosema works out the order: every outer section before the content inside it.

Safe by default

Re-running a translation never overwrites existing work. You get a warning instead. Replacing it takes a deliberate tick of Re-translate (overwrite).

Clean URLs

Translated pages get tidy addresses that bookmarks and links keep working with. Prefer localised URLs? Switch them on, and edit any page's path by hand.

Bulk translation

Translate a whole section in one job.

Select a page and the pages beneath it, pick a language, and Typosema handles the rest in the background.

A page plus some or all of its subpages
One dashboard with the status of every page
Publish everything at once, or retry only what failed
Runs unattended as a scheduled task: no browser tab needed

BULK JOBServices and 11 subpages → Kinyarwanda

Running

6 ready2 translating1 failed2 queued

ServicesReady for review

HealthReady for review

Health insuranceReady for review

EducationReady for review

School registrationReady for review

Land & housingTranslating

Building permitsFailed

BusinessQueued

Retry failed (1)Publish all ready (6)

Built into TYPO3, not bolted on.

Instead of a separate translation system, Typosema fills TYPO3's own language mechanics, so everything TYPO3 already does for multilingual sites works with zero extra setup.

Language menu

Visitors switch between English and Kinyarwanda from the language menu TYPO3 already provides.

Correct URLs

Every translated page gets the right address, with routing handled by TYPO3.

SEO tags

Language and alternate-page tags are output for search engines automatically.

Caching

Translated pages are cached like the rest of your site, so performance stays where it was.

Who it's for

For teams who serve the public in both languages.

Government & public institutions

Ministries, districts and agencies whose content must be read by every citizen, not just those who read English.

Serve the public properly

Organizations & NGOs

Publish in English and Kinyarwanda without hiring a translator for every page. Your editors stay in control of every word.

Keep both languages in sync

Agencies running TYPO3

Offer local-language translation to your clients as a value-added service, managed from the backend you already know.

Add a new service line

Starting with English and Kinyarwanda. More languages are coming.
Typosema grows with Digital Umuganda's translation engine. New languages show up in the dropdown as soon as they are ready.

EnglishKinyarwanda+ More languages soon

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Something else on your mind? Get in touch. We're happy to help you set it up.

Which languages does Typosema support?

Today, English and Kinyarwanda. More languages are on the way as Digital Umuganda's translation engine grows, and the language dropdown only ever lists pairs the engine actually supports, so editors can't pick a combination that won't work.

Will a translation ever go live on its own?

No. Every translation is saved as a draft that isn't visible on the live site. It goes live only when an editor reviews it and chooses to publish.

What happens when I update the English page?

The existing translation is left untouched, and you see a warning that one already exists. To replace it, you tick Re-translate (overwrite) on purpose, so nobody's edits are lost by accident.

Do I need to change how my TYPO3 site is set up?

No. Typosema fills TYPO3's own language mechanics, so a site that already has English and Kinyarwanda configured works straight away, including the language menu, URLs, SEO tags and caching.

Can large translation jobs run without someone watching?

Yes. Bulk jobs run in the background as a scheduled task, so nobody needs to keep a browser tab open. You come back to a dashboard showing which pages are ready, which failed and which are still queued.

How do I install Typosema?

Install the extension with Composer (composer require digitalumuganda/typosema), activate it in TYPO3, then open any page and click Translate this page.

Try it on your site

Your next page update, in both languages.

Install the extension, open any page and click Translate this page. Your first Kinyarwanda draft is a few minutes away.

composer require digitalumuganda/typosema

Install for TYPO3 Read the setup guide