On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:01 AM, jan iversen <[email protected]>wrote:
> so you are saying, that I should simply do so much qualified work that the > committers get tired of committing my work, and vote me in as a committer > :-) > > time will show...!!! > > I have created a wiki account, and are able to edit pages, I have installed > the mediaWiki extension to openOffice, but it cannot upload the page, it > says my user is not known. Do you know if that a real problem, or am I > doing something wrong ? > Most people simply just work within the wiki, is not a pre-requisite to edit the OpenOffice wiki with OpenOffice. That said, I think is a good testing practice, in case something in mediawiki changes and break the extension. But I am not sure how reliable is to use it in the long road specially with multiple edits and access to history and other matters. Also there is certain convention on the wiki that is good to follow like Categories, and subfolders. Formating is not such a big deal, but you might want to read the Mediawiki help page every now and then. The localization page was unique since it used it's Category page as its main page, this makes it somewhat easier to locate its content related pages. Most other project has a main page and could work within a subfolder (usually is just a prefix to your page). Is another way of encapsulating the content, like JA/MainPage as opposed to JA_MainPage. Even in the past most editors didnt make much use of this way of working and "commited to root". Also there is the issue of hyperlinking, since inside project links are usually just relative links and its convention is different from external links. OpenOffice wont help you locating other wikipages. So yeah is a bit unpractical, so you might want to try to do it within Mediawiki. > > jan I > > On 15 October 2012 10:23, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/15/12 10:10 AM, jan iversen wrote: > > > I totally agree. > > > > > > My document just aims at the ongoing build process for existing > > languages. > > > > > > For sure I hope that it is not nearly 100% UI changes, hopefully there > > are > > > nearly just as many help changes, otherwise we are slowly getting a big > > > documentation problem. > > > > > > I will have a new draft ready later today, and find a place to upload > it. > > > It is too bad that there are no upload.apache.org for such things (or > > more > > > importantly for translations). > > > > committers at Apache have their own directory on people.apache.org where > > it is possible to share such files. > > > > But I would create a wiki page which is easier to maintain over time and > > where collaboration is easier. > > > > Juergen > > > > > > > > jan I > > > > > > On 15 October 2012 02:32, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Keith N. McKenna > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Hi Jan; > > >>> > > >>> I suspect that you attached the document to your mail to the list. > > >>> Unfortunately most of the lists strip attachments. The best bet is to > > >> upload > > >>> it to your website or something like sky drive and post a link to it > > >> back to > > >>> the mailing list. I look forward to seeing what you have come up with > > and > > >>> though I am not a translator, hopefully my process engineering > > background > > >>> can make some useul comments. > > >>> > > >> > > >> +1. > > >> > > >> And we'll probably need to make some distinction between updating an > > >> existing localization and creating one from scratch. For a new > > >> localization, like the Uighur one, there are many tasks, from > > >> developing the basic glossary, to translation, but also other aspects > > >> of localization, like collation/sorting order, numeration, decimal > > >> formats, spell checkers, etc. But updating an existing translation > > >> for a new release is almost 100% UI string translation. And then > > >> there are the rarer cases of language/spelling reforms such as in > > >> German, which are of intermediate difficulty. The most common case is > > >> the updated translation, and it might make sense to focus the initial > > >> process documentation on that case. > > >> > > >> -Rob > > >> > > >>> Regards > > >>> Keith > > >>> > > >>> jan iversen wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hi. > > >>> > > >>> I have just finished the first draft of the l10n process document. > > >>> > > >>> Please feel free to give me feedback, especially on the commands in > the > > >>> workflows which I can only hope I have described correctly. > > >>> > > >>> During the next days I will integrate any comments I receive as well > as > > >> make > > >>> some extensions to the document like: > > >>> - Data flow > > >>> - List of issues > > >>> - cross check tool and file format list > > >>> > > >>> I will later put it on the wiki server. > > >>> > > >>> have a nice night > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Jan Iversen > > >>> ________________________________________________ > > >>> Tel. no. +34 622 87 66 19 > > >>> jandorte.wordpress.com > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
