On 11/18/09 14:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 09:23:11 Clayton wrote:
What I'm looking to do is to make the process
more... obvious I guess...
thus my "dream" extension that adds a "Translate this page" link at
the
top next to the Edit link.
It does that - and it sets up systems for on-line translation, but you need to
read the wiki about how it works. OTOH, I don't think there is any way you
could possibly keep translation open to all and at the same time avoid the
possibility of someone overwriting your original page. It's happened on ours
just a couple of times, necessitating a rollback. We are running the
extension on a sandbox, but that's one problem I don't expect it to be able to
solve :-)
I definitely don't want to lock down things so that people cannot
translate at all. There is a translation process that is being worked
on (offline process involving page exports etc.).
Managing the ad-hoc translations won't fit into the Translation
Extension, but I have forwarded the info about the Translation extension
to the people involved in the more formal translation process... we/they
will be looking into it when there is time (is there ever any time?)
For the ad-hoc translations, I've done a few things - one is to put a
notice just under the Save button, and I've also added a few Help: pages
to try and provide more information.
So... thanks for the help and tips. It's all going to be in one way or
another :-)
C.
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Clayton Cornell ccornell(a)openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany