I think improving VE to understand translate, and expanding the training/documentation for translate are the best next steps. This is also a problem on Meta-Wiki.
Removing the translate setup from the pages seems problematic as we're trying to make info available in languages beyond just English. -greg _______________ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. > On Apr 1, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > > So based on notes from Niklas on the bug, it looks like there are two main > problems: > > 1) VE treats <translate>...</translate> chunks as uneditable extension > blobs. > > 2) Some/many pages use <translate>...</translate> incorrectly: spanning > paragraphs, markup level boundaries, etc. > > > So problem 1) can be improved in two ways: > 1a) Have VE treat <translate>...</translate> as more or less like plaintext > or a div or something > 1b) Much fancier sub-document editing > > Fixing problem 2) means refactoring broken pages in ways that presumably > would require at least some of their translations to be re-created. > > I don't know whether 2) is caused by problems in the translation interface, > or by people further editing the pages without a detailed understanding of > how the <translate> and <!--T:123--> markup bits work, or a combination of > both. > > -- brion > > > >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Proper VE/Parsoid support for the <translate> extension has been wanted >>> for >>> a while now. It hasn't made a list of quarterly goals yet. Help wanted, >>> certainly. >> >> This is a HUGELY important dogfooding goal; we need to be able to edit the >> wiki about our own product! >> >> Anything we can do to help out? >> >> -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
