On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 19:19, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2010/8/9 Helder Geovane <[email protected]>:
> > Would a "prototype wiki" be a good place to make it possible for
> Portuguese
> > community to test the Language Conversion in practice?
> >
> Sounds good to me personally, although I'll ask some other people to
> weigh in. I personally like the idea of a world where the standard
> response to "hey we wanna play with this thing and it's all coded up
> already" is "sure, lemme set you up with a prototype wiki".
>
> > We are considering[1][2] the possibility of using the system to handle
> > regional differences in the written Portuguese, but it seems that the
> > editors need more contact with the system before they can decide in
> favour
> > or agains an efective use of the conversion system at pt.wikipedia.
> > We have made some drafts of the PHP code[3] which is needed to start, and
> > set of possible global conversion rules for some variants[4].
> >
> > What should we do to have a prototype wiki for this, if that is possible?
> >
> You should start with getting your code in SVN. If it is or can be
> written in a way that makes it easy to disable (or if there's some
> other caveat such as it not doing anything if the conversion tables
> are empty), it can be committed straight to trunk. If this is not
> possible, it can be put in a branch, but trunk would really be
> preferred here, and disableability should be relatively easy to
> accomplish.
>
> Then when it's agreed that this should go on a prototype wiki, Ryan or
> I will set up the wiki and configure it, and it'll be all yours.
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>

It seems to be sufficient to add set *$wgDisableLangConversion = true;* for
Portuguese wikis while testing at a prototype wiki (there it would have it's
default value [*=false]*). Would that be possible?

There is also an open bug related to this variable:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18958

Helder
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