Click-to-translate feature for Moodle

Lately I tried to improve the quality of my university's Moodle platform. Among other things (i.e. upgrades, new backup setups, new theme, etc) I also wanted to improve the quality of the Romanian translations. The Romanian language pack of Moodle 1.9 its quite good from the student/user point of view, but it still has some problems:

• the string for administrator/teacher views, reports, forms are not fully translated; I understand why: there little to gain in usability from translating them as many administrators use the English language (including me)
• new strings are not translated yet (maybe they are in CVS, but I did not look there)
• bugs

When I tried to fix or add some translations, I faced a problem that I believe is the source of many translation bugs: the lack of context information. For example, how do you translate "fullname". If it refers to a course, then it could be just that "Full name"; but if it refers to a user name, then it could also be "First and last name". Unfortunately, this is a bug in the Romanian language pack: when you create a course (in the Romanian interface) the full name will display "First and last name" (in Romanian, of course). Obviously, this is confusing for new users.
Even if you can guess the correct ad-litteram translation of a string, you could always benefit from knowing in what context it is used. This way, you can provide a better semantic translation.
In order to have this context information available, I patched Moodle to save the get_string results and send them to the browser (for user which have language editing capabilities). Then, using a simple JQuery/JavaScript script (sorry again for JQuery, I just found it much more pleasant than YUI) when the user performs a proper action (right-click while holding down Control), I display a list of the strings matching the element under the current mouse position. In this list, the user can click the string she/he wants to change/translate. A frame specific to that string is displayed where the user can edit the translation source and save it. The changes required patching lib/moodlelib.php (where get_string is) and lib/weblib.php (where the page footer is generated).
Initially, I wanted to do this a fully AJAX process (similar to Google's "suggest a better translation"), but I had to replicate a lot of the admin/lang.php content. This is not good, especially for future updates. Thus, I decided to open a frame with the translation editing form. The problem with this approach is that some translation files are just big and take very long to show up (frequently freezing Firefox for 5-10 seconds). Therefore, I patched admin/lang.php so that I can provide a particular string and it will display/edit only that string (loading/saving is very fast this way). Of course, the automatic translation feature using Google Language API is still in place and working fine.
Except for the new JavaScript for the editing console (which is about 80 lines of code, including many comments), the other changes are minor, allowing this feature to work with different Moodle versions.
Let's take now an example. Consider my local Moodle sandbox. As you can notice, the "Please register you site..." is not translated.

I'm an administrator, so I have language editing capabilities. When I right-click on that text (or an area that includes it, like a div, table cell, etc), I get a list of translatable string inside the HTML element I clicked. I go and click on the proper text:

Next, a frame loads displaying the editing form only for the pleaseregister string from the admin.php language file (which is currently untranslated in Romanian):

Taking advantage of the Google translation feature, I click on the English version of the text (on the left) in order to get it translated automatically into Romanian.

After making sure the translation is ok (and it was in this case), I can save it. Sometimes the Google translation needs a bit of work, but it's still a much better starting point than starting from zero.

If I would not patched admin/lang.php in order to display only the string I want to edit, then editing admin.php would mean to load a long form (which completely hangs Firefox for 10 seconds) and then scroll down to about 80% of the page or  search for the string I wanted.