And in other languages it would be something else. We support roughly 300
languages - at least one of them isnt going to have a natural constructoon
of that form. Insisting that translators have "editing" at the beginning of
the line is a major step backwards.
-bawolff
On 2013-12-11 8:32 PM, "Jared Zimmerman" <jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
some point of clarity in english and languages with the same structure it
would be
:
Editing Article Name
in languages where the verb order is reversed it would be
Edit Article Name
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> On 12/11/2013 08:12 PM, Juliusz Gonera wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> That's almost certainly not possible in every language. It could work
as a
suggestion, though ("If possible...").
>
> However, it might be better to wrap the title (language aside, it could
provide
better usability for some scenarios, e.g. if you lock your phone
when editing, then come back to it and want to see what page you're on).
Matt Flaschen
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