Are there technical reasons why using an ellipsis like
"Long article name which will be trunca... editing"
would not work?
I agree with the solution suggested by Andre. Truncating just the article
title leaving room for the sentence to be complete seems a good solution
since it informs on the action and provides as much context as the
available room allows.
I guess that technically it may be more challenging to collapse the article
title that the whole sentence, but if done properly the solution could be
reused in many other places. Since article titles in sentences may be
frequently appearing in our UI.
Some article titles can be really
long<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Marble,_…
if they are a
single
word<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%A…)n>),
but part of the title is normally enough to give some context. Especially
where (a) you are seeing part of the content itself, and (b) you can scroll
up to get the full title (e.g., in case you work on many similar "list of
countries with..." and has got disoriented at some point).
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Not sure if this went through:
I came up with a CSS-only solution.
The message in English would be:
'<strong>Editing</strong> <span>$1</span>'
In Japanese:
'<span>$1</span>を<strong>編集中</strong>'
Now the CSS (the message is inside a <h2>):
h2 {
display: table;
width: 100%;
* {
display: table-cell;
// padding instead of spaces between words
padding-right: .5em;
}
strong {
width: 1em;
}
span {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
// required for text-overflow to work
max-width: 1em;
}
}
Comments?
Now, bonus question. The message is "'''Editing''' $1"
now. Should I
create a new key or just edit the English message?
On 12/11/2013 05:12 PM, Juliusz Gonera wrote:
If you are in beta on mobile now, there's a
new look for the editor. The
heading of the editor now says "Editing [article name]" in English.
The problem is that designers want this to be always one line long at
most and truncate it when it's longer. This is fine in English where
"Editing" is at the beginning, not OK in some languages, e.g. Japanese:
http://tinyurl.com/qftpgy4 (click the pencil icon)
where "editing" ("編集中") is at the end. If we truncate this, it
won't make
much sense.
Should I suggest in the message description that the translators should
use such a grammatical construction so that the word "editing" stays at the
beginning? That's what designers suggested.
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