Philippe Verdy, 13/02/2012 23:15:
2012/2/13 Casey Brownlists@caseybrown.org:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Philippe Verdyverdy_p@wanadoo.fr wrote:
The template also did not allow to display the link to the meta page for all languages, despite those links were equally valid.
That was intentional. It was to discourage people from trying to publish a translation that was not ready yet. They were still able to do it if they wanted to, but not with a convenient little link. They would have had to think about if they should really publish an unreviewed/unfinished translation beforehand. :-)
But given that these links will lead them to a read(only page, what is wrong ? If admins can edit the target, or have already published a translation, the link was already there: if the target was no read-only, anyone other than the same admins could change it.
It is the protection level of messages that determines what can be edited, but there's no reason to hide the read-only page, or to complicate the task of voluntary admins, or not allow translators to look at the current status of an existing translation compared to what is in the editable page, so that they can signal unsynchronized contents, by changing the status from "published" to "ready", when they have corrected it (or when someone else made the correction but forgot to change it back from "published" to "proofreading" and then "ready").
Why then do you want to hide some of those links, but not all of them ? It's illogical, and certainly not motivated by a true security or stability of the transaltion project. For me, it's ALL or these links, or NONE of them, whatever their current editable status.
Ehm, could we please move such discussions to the talk of the template?
Nemo