On 22 August 2014 05:47, Harry Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > [Apologies, I get these on digest so I'm probably a bit behind.] > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> * How do you plan on localizing the black banner with English words in >> it? MediaWiki supports localized SVGs if I remember correctly, but >> doesn't have a method to translate them (E:TranslateSvg hasn't been >> deployed yet). >> > > Just to expand slightly, the current state of SVG translation remains > problematic, insofar as > all users must currently receive the same language SVG (for rationale, see > changeset #95746). > Thus MediaWiki cannot show this same SVG based on content language alone. > However, > given that we now have a clear usecase this could probably be changed [1]. > > Regards translating this particular SVG, I could boot up > translatesvg.wmflabs.org and piggyback > on this demand to get some basic user testing (although I already know > it's a bit rubbish at the > moment!!). Since it just exports an SVG anyway, voila -- though preserving > attribution would need some > thought. > > Best, > Harry > > [1] Not sure on the technical specifics. Clearly the easiest would be to > have a |lang=multi flag, > but that may not be sustainable long term. >
As a quick note, if someone (you, Harry?) is interested in getting the TranslateSvg extension on the Wikimedia cluster (at least for Commons), I'd be happy to help. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54214 is the main tracking bug. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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