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author | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-11-11 17:52:32 -0500 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net> | 2008-11-11 17:52:32 -0500 |
commit | 2a56ec664402e21625e9251dcbb3b53490e7ed0d (patch) | |
tree | a3b8ca059cd5b671721b071f4d30786a389d7196 /doc/plugins/contrib | |
parent | f6db9205369d1197bbd05f3e07ed79393b5fe220 (diff) | |
parent | d1b22b252481134815b1d02d564b6b9622fe7b4b (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into po
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn | 86 |
1 files changed, 82 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn index af215a493..3077b4858 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/po.mdwn @@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ translated with gettext, using [po4a](http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/). More information: -* It can be found in [my "po" branch](http://repo.or.cz/w/ikiwiki/intrigeri.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/po): `git clone git://repo.or.cz/ikiwiki/intrigeri.git` -* It involves adding three hooks to ikiwiki core. -* It is documented (including TODO and plans for next work steps) in `doc/plugins/po.mdwn`, which can be found in the same branch. +* It can be found in my "po" branch: + `git clone git://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/ikiwiki.git` +* It is self-contained, *i.e.* it does not modify ikiwiki core at all. +* It is documented (including TODO and plans for next work steps) in + `doc/plugins/po.mdwn`, which can be found in the same branch. * No public demo site is available so far, I'm working on this. My plan is to get this plugin clean enough to be included in ikiwiki. @@ -73,10 +75,86 @@ Any thoughts on this? >> and could only then translate it, right? I wonder if this will be clear >> though to the user. >> +>>> Right: a broken link points to the URL that allows to create +>>> a page that can either be a new master page or a non-translatable +>>> page, depending on `po_translatable_pages` value. The best +>>> solution I can thing of is to use [[plugins/edittemplate]] to +>>> insert something like "Warning: this is a master page, that must +>>> be written in $MASTER_LANGUAGE" into newly created master pages, +>>> and maybe another warning message on newly created +>>> non-translatable pages. It seems quite doable to me, but in order +>>> to avoid breaking existing functionality, it implies to hack a bit +>>> [[plugins/edittemplate]] so that multiple templates can be +>>> inserted at page creation time. [[--intrigeri]] +>> >> And also, is there any way to start a translation of a page into a new >> lanauge using the web interface? ->> +>> +>>> When a new language is added to `po_slave_languages`, a rebuild is +>>> triggered, and all missing PO files are created and checked into +>>> VCS. An unpriviledged wiki user can not add a new language to +>>> `po_slave_languages`, though. One could think of adding the needed +>>> interface to translate a page into a yet-unsupported slave +>>> language, and this would automagically add this new language to +>>> `po_slave_languages`. It would probably be useful in some +>>> usecases, but I'm not comfortable with letting unpriviledged wiki +>>> users change the wiki configuration as a side effect of their +>>> actions; if this were to be implemented, special care would be +>>> needed. [[--intrigeri]] +>>> +>>>> Actually I meant into any of the currently supported languages. +>>>> I guess that if the template modification is made, it will list those +>>>> languages on the page, and if a translation to a language is missing, +>>>> the link will allow creating it? +>>>> +>>>>> Any translation page always exist for every supported slave +>>>>> language, even if no string at all have been translated yet. +>>>>> This implies the po plugin is especially friendly to people who +>>>>> prefer reading in their native language if available, but don't +>>>>> mind reading in English else. +>>>>> +>>>>> While I'm at it, there is a remaining issue that needs to be +>>>>> sorted out: how painful it could be for non-English speakers +>>>>> (assuming the master language is English) to be perfectly able +>>>>> to navigate between translation pages supposed to be written in +>>>>> their own language, when their translation level is most +>>>>> often low. +>>>>> +>>>>> (It is currently easy to display this status on the translation +>>>>> page itself, but then it's too late, and how frustrating to load +>>>>> a page just to realize it's actually not translated enough for +>>>>> you. The "other languages" loop also allows displaying this +>>>>> information, but it is generally not the primary +>>>>> navigation tool.) +>>>>> +>>>>> IMHO, this is actually a social problem (i.e. it's no use adding +>>>>> a language to the supported slave ones if you don't have the +>>>>> manpower to actually do the translations), that can't be fully +>>>>> solved by technical solutions, but I can think of some hacks +>>>>> that would limit the negative impact: a given translation's +>>>>> status (currently = percent translated) could be displayed next +>>>>> to the link that leads to it; a color code could as well be used +>>>>> ("just" a matter of adding a CSS id or class to the links, +>>>>> depending on this variable). As there is already work to be done +>>>>> to have the links text generation more customizable through +>>>>> plugins, I could do both at the same time if we consider this +>>>>> matter to be important enough. --[[intrigeri]] + >> FWIW, I'm tracking your po branch in ikiwiki master git in the po >> branch. One thing I'd like to try in there is setting up a translated >> basewiki, which seems like it should be pretty easy to do, and would be >> a great demo! --[[Joey]] +>> +>>> I've merged your changes into my own branch, and made great +>>> progress on the various todo items. Please note my repository +>>> location has changed a few days ago, my user page was updated +>>> accordingly, but I forgot to update this page at the same time. +>>> Hoping it's not too complicated to relocated an existing remote... +>>> (never done that, I'm a Git beginner as well as a Perl +>>> newbie) --[[intrigeri]] +>>>> +>>>> Just a matter of editing .git/config, thanks for the heads up. +>>>>> +>>>>> Joey, please have a look at my branch, your help would be really +>>>>> welcome for the security research, as I'm almost done with what +>>>>> I am able to do myself in this area. --[[intrigeri]] |