Infrastructure

Deferred until tested with MediaWiki 1.23

Please consider installing the TranslationNotification extension as well. It would allow translators to be notified via e-mail about important pages that need translation, such as the release notes.

Adolfo Jayme wrote:

Please consider installing the TranslationNotification extension as well. It would allow translators to be notified via e-mail about important pages that need translation, such as the release notes.

+1

It sounds like installing the Language Extension Bundle is the suggested way of setting-up for multilingual wikis:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle

TranslationNotifications is (I believe) a separate extension:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TranslationNotifications

Any chance to have a look at this before Christmas?

well it depend on my time. but for the case alex doesn't have the time, I will likely find the time int he holidays. (so I would only need access, but for that i have to send my sha key... :-P)

Feel free to mail your SSH key to Alex, of course ;-)

Did you get access already? If not, e-mail me your private key directly

Alexander Werner wrote:

Dennis, i need your SSH key please and a password generated with mkpasswd --method=sha-512 or
[...]

Yeah. Sry. I had some problems with my flat in the last few days and thus my spare time was eaten up. :-(

Will do it later. ;-) (I promise!)

@alex and finally here is my ssh :-)

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCkkIkLOsDOvwkWSPIxPM+N1OHVV/6Hif4jrupQ/sxZ9ldFuTrT3oruoiuRyQ8T+/1zA7tpyvJYieF4V1JIq1NnMVY9S15e10nG2IwmqnyYZ3kfNkuSP1rl7ynjYPjVRjXK8a6k6llyAQMDt4i2CwGY8GN+sayEuSJ/0w1gjO9vef8HoXaHfPlbK5kO79cjlCaK4grHmoo4mINeWSGZU9OVSjn43+NEZHz3MJZPcHctpsDoQi+EVCpUGyDEcMFEMvZFFOjYKFa5V6xuE1S2BszWmTG90p9Xs5R0+mpgRNNOR6iVNcM8QkEf7NOgLdVzusU7eIRxjtrUAlizYBVWZOpn dennisroczek@libreoffice.org

Robinson Tryon wrote:

It sounds like installing the Language Extension Bundle is the suggested way of setting-up for multilingual wikis:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle

This was requested just now by a contributor, the reason given:
"I’ve noticed that composing and editing Persian, an RTL language, is nearly impossible currently (you have to use several hacks to make it work)."

Thank you Beluga and Dennis Roczek for reviving this issue. I certainly need that bundle if I, or any Persian-speaking editor for that matter, want to edit an RTL page.

The problem is that the wiki editor jumbles up everything in the “compose” area from left to right and sentences become almost unreadable there. One has to copy them into an external editor that also supports RTL, edit the text there, copy/paste them back in the wiki editor (which immediately scrambles up everything again), look at the preview, and repeat. It’s a tangled mess!

Not only that, but also any language tag such as {{fa}} {{fa-end}} that one might add to fix the published page, only affects the body part that is manually composed. All other auto-created parts, such as the table of contents, are still LTR in the published page.

Dennis, Guilhem, something you can have a look at maybe during next week?

How about ACLs? Should every user be allowed to translate, or should we
create a new “translators” group or something?

No educated guess here - can you poke Marina? She asked for that
extension recently, maybe she has an idea :)

Florian Effenberger wrote:

How about ACLs? Should every user be allowed to translate, or should we
create a new “translators” group or something?

No educated guess here - can you poke Marina? She asked for that
extension recently, maybe she has an idea :)

do everybody (registered) to be open as much as possible; then we can see how this will work out. To restrict the stuff is easy and can be done later for the case it produces vandalism/spam/whatever.

No objections ;)

do everybody (registered) to be open as much as possible; then we can
see how this will work out. To restrict the stuff is easy and can be
done later for the case it produces vandalism/spam/whatever.