> True, especially for simple searches with the wiki internal search > tool, localized titles would help. Maybe the "best" i guess would be to > have a translation of Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function at > NL/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function and a redirect from > NL/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_functie_BOOGCOS to that page. Really
As long as we don't drown in redirects :-) There are a few tools in the wiki to manage redirects... we could experiment a bit with that concept. > cool would it be if we would have a extension that offers a "translate" > button next to "edit" on the english page that presents a form with: > - a dropdown of Languages > - a textfield for a localized title. > If I would fill that form for > "Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function" with "NL" as language and > Calc:_functie_BOOGCOS as localized title, the following would happen: > - the english page is copied to > NL/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function > - the Category NL is added to the created page. > - The text "This page needs to be translated to NL" is added with a > template on top. > - a redirect from NL/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_BOOGCOS_function to > NL/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_ACOS_function is created > - the user is presented the created page and can start translating. > > Just dreamin' ;-) It might not be so much of a dream... it *would* require some work to set up.. maybe with a focus only on the Documentation subset of the Wiki.... There is an extension already installed in the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:InputBox and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Preloader which can probably be used to do something very close to what you outlined here... it would require some extra setup though... such as including by Template if possible (so it could be blacklisted from the PDF/ODT book generator). Then this Template would have to be added to every page that was a candidate for translations (the Wiki Bot could probably do this once the Doc categories were cleaned up a bit more). Other questions come to mind such as localizing the tool since there is some good documentation available on the Wiki in languages other than English... but it might be possible. I know there are a few creative types here who seem to enjoy solving something like this :-) C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
