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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
