-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I am interested in contributing to Mageia, but am a non-coder. I write this introduction in the hope that you can identify how best my experience can help the project.
History - My first success in Linux was with Mandrake 8. I stayed with Mandrake/Mandriva for, perhaps, 6 years before moving to Fedora, where I stayed until recently. The original Mandrake TWiki was run by Vincent Danen, Huffy (Eric Huffsteder(?) ) and myself. I gradually become more involved in answering user questions on mailing lists, and in 2007 was invited to become a member of KDE e.V. In 2008 I was one of a tiny team that started http://userbase.kde.org and am now the maintainer. The web team consider me a part of their team, but I am responsible for wiki content, not mediawiki code. In 2010 our wiki took a great step forward. We had had translated pages for some time, only to find that some of those pages were out of date by 2 years! After much consideration, discussion with the author, Niklas Laxström, and testing on a sandbox, we installed the Translate extension for Mediawiki. This has been a great success. * It enables multi-lingual users to assist in keeping the translated pages in sync with the English pages * It enables translators to see at a glance which pages have changes that need translating. * It enables the i18n team to concentrate on the "official" docbook content by freeing up time spent on wikis. * It can be used online or off-line, exporting with gettext and working with Lokalize or similar apps. If Mageia's teams are interested in this development, we have a sandbox where you could investigate the workings - I can set up translator accounts there for anyone interested. In my early days with Mandrake I was, like many users, completely new to Linux. The language was strange to me, and although I appreciated the existence of the drakes, I didn't always know how to use them. Eventually I found documentation with screenshots - I think it was on mandrakeuser.org, but I'm not sure. They were a tremendous help. I haven't found this kind of help on the Mageia wiki, and would be interested in helping get it there, if it isn't present. KDE wikis do take quite a bit of my time, but I feel a debt of honour, not to say an emotional attachment, to the offspring of Mandrake. I am not subscribed to either of these mailing lists. If any of this is of interest to you, please contact me and I will subscribe appropriately. Regards Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/R4bcACgkQj93fyh4cnBdCrwCghAfEAqzU9/U8eRWlPd10Q/On rcUAnA/Nv7iYmCOkBnDJkabhJ36xEICB =PMNf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
