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 <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian
<cananian(a)wikimedia.org>
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