[cablewiki] Re: Solution to Languages Problem / Template Translation / stuff
- From: Robert McLeod <hamstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cablewiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:59:00 +1300
Hope you're all following the protests, shit is getting crazy:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/02/live-blog-feb-3-egypt-protests
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:27 PM, JayP <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've worked out a solution on the last problem FutureMelt mentioned:
>
> >There needs to be some way to let the user pick their language when they
> register on the site. Using the "languages" box on the page only sets the
> language for that page.
>
> Check this: http://test.cablegatewiki.org/index.php?title=07PARIS4723
> On the sidebar there is now a dropdown menu where you can chose your
> prefered language. If you chose German, you'll see that you are
> automatically redirected to the german translation of the cable. The
> extension that does that (Polyglot) also makes the {{Languages}} bars
> redundant, since it automatically lists available translations in the
> sidebar, like on the wikipedia.
>
> The biggest problem here is figuring out the best way to translate the
> little bits of text into other languages. For example, here
> http://test.cablegatewiki.org/index.php?title=07PARIS4650 there is the
> text "Create an Analysis of this cable in your Language!", what is the best
> way to let users translate that piece of text?
>
> I think we'll have to create seperate templates for every language. But I
> think it should be possible to create a "parent template" (e.g. {{Infobox}}
> ) that looks at the language code in the article name and choses the correct
> "child template" accordingly (e.g. {{Infobox/de}}.
>
> That beeing solved, I think there are only 5 things left that should be
> done before we can make the Beta Public:
>
> - Get the Semantic Table to work with the dropdown parser (filtering
> the results for language, origin, date, ...)
> - Get the Semantic Table to show translation status and user ratings
> for quality & controversy
> - Creating a Poster for Promotion*
> - Creating Guidelines for Translation*
> - Getting the CableBot to import the Cables from Leekfead and render
> the new cable Layout
>
>
> *can be done by everyone, now!
>
> Cheers,
>
> JayP
>
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