Hi,
I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of
enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on Commons.
The UniversalLanguageSelector extension ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector ) allows users to easily switch the interface language; it also embeds an interface to enter text in non-Latin languages even if your keyboard doesn't allow it.
My feeling is that both these tools would dramatically improve the user experience on Commons for people who don't use English. As a multilingual wiki, Commons even seems like the perfect audience for these tools.
FYI, I quick drafted < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLan...
in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons
(I thought it was better to leave the question of the Translate extension to another discussion, as there seems to be more hurdles with the transition).
Thanks,
Hi,
FYI, I quick drafted
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLan...
in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons
(I thought it was better to leave the question of the Translate extension to another discussion, as there seems to be more hurdles with the transition).
Scrap that, I drafted as well < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Translate_ex...
Your input is welcome.
Thanks,
I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of
enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on Commons.
FYI, I quick drafted
< https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLan...
in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons
Just a quick follow up on this. ULS has been enabled on CommonsBeta (thanks to Nemo I think!) ; but apart fromThere has not been much activity on the RFC, unfortunately.
I am unsure what needs to be done by whom and when. Should we already try to seek large Commons community consensus? Should the i18n folks comment on the deployment plan before?
Thanks for your answers,
Jean-Frédéric, 10/05/2013 18:37:
I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on Commons. FYI, I quick drafted <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLanguageSelector> in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia CommonsJust a quick follow up on this. ULS has been enabled on CommonsBeta (thanks to Nemo I think!) ;
Noo it's just the ULS deployment plan by the WMF Language engineering team (we'll hear about it very soon).
but apart fromThere has not been much activity on the RFC, unfortunately.
I am unsure what needs to be done by whom and when. Should we already try to seek large Commons community consensus? Should the i18n folks comment on the deployment plan before?
The RfC s not even linked from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment, I thought it wasn't officially open? It should just be advertised a little, with watchlist notices if needed.
Nemo
Just a quick follow up on this. ULS has been enabled on CommonsBeta
(thanks to Nemo I think!) ;
Noo it's just the ULS deployment plan by the WMF Language engineering team (we'll hear about it very soon).
Oh, I see. Thanks to them then - though I am indeed eager to hear more about it...
but apart fromThere has not been much
activity on the RFC, unfortunately.
I am unsure what needs to be done by whom and when. Should we already try to seek large Commons community consensus? Should the i18n folks comment on the deployment plan before?
The RfC s not even linked from < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment%3E
It is from < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Centralized_discussion%3E and was mentionned on the Village Pump.
I thought it wasn't officially open?
Well, it is not in the sense I was not looking yet for the shower of Support/Oppose. I thought we needed to have it fleshed out a bit using the input of the i18n folks - but this was just how I saw the all thing, I am probably mistaken.
It should just be advertised a little, with watchlist notices if needed.
I was actually planning a SiteNotice ^____^
FYI, ULS and Translate extensions were both enabled earlier today.
See the announcement on the Village Pump < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Translate_is_now_ena...
and the Bugzilla request https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48620
Thanks to all who were involved in this.