On 11/18/09 14:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2009 09:23:11 Clayton wrote: >> What I'm looking to do is to make the process more... obvious I guess... >> thus my "dream" extension that adds a "Translate this page" link at the >> top next to the Edit link. >> > It does that - and it sets up systems for on-line translation, but you need > to > read the wiki about how it works. OTOH, I don't think there is any way you > could possibly keep translation open to all and at the same time avoid the > possibility of someone overwriting your original page. It's happened on ours > just a couple of times, necessitating a rollback. We are running the > extension on a sandbox, but that's one problem I don't expect it to be able > to > solve :-)
I definitely don't want to lock down things so that people cannot translate at all. There is a translation process that is being worked on (offline process involving page exports etc.). Managing the ad-hoc translations won't fit into the Translation Extension, but I have forwarded the info about the Translation extension to the people involved in the more formal translation process... we/they will be looking into it when there is time (is there ever any time?) For the ad-hoc translations, I've done a few things - one is to put a notice just under the Save button, and I've also added a few Help: pages to try and provide more information. So... thanks for the help and tips. It's all going to be in one way or another :-) C. -- Clayton Cornell [email protected] OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
