Hoi,<br>What I care about is best practices. Many Toolserver tools do not pass the Open Source smell tests. They are hacks that are at best a proof of concept. Some of them are mistaken for a solution and as a consequence no real solution is developed. An example of these are the statistics that are so important for our GLAM relations.<br>

<br>We have started with best practices for localisation for Toolserver tools. A good example is SVG translate; not only is the user interface of this tool localisable the tool helps you translate those SVG files that have labels that are separate from the image of the SVG. This allows you to make such images available in YOUR language.<br>

<br>When I look at the X! edit counter I see many language codes, I clicked on many of them and the user interface did not chance. I do not know at what rate localisations go live. I do not know how people can suggest bug fixes. Consequently for me it is not best practice and consequently I may blog about it when such issues are remedied.<br>

Thanks,<br>      GerardM<br><br><a href="http://toolserver.org/~jarry/svgtranslate/">http://toolserver.org/~jarry/svgtranslate/</a><br><a href="https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&amp;group=tsint-svgtranslate">https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&amp;group=tsint-svgtranslate</a><br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2011 15:34, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

Dear Gerard, <br>X!&#39;s  edit counter is an edit counter [HOSTED on the Toolserver], that we use to check our number of edits.<br><a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Esoxred93/" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/</a><br>

Maybe you can read thru it and understand why some people care about it.<br>
Regards, <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2011 17:42, Gerard Meijssen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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Hoi,<br>While it seems nice that something is localised somewhere, it is the lack of a common infrastructure that makes the Toolserver in many respects quite awful. In many respects Toolserver tools do not survive one of the open smell tests; is it possible to see the code and is it possible to submit a patch and get it implemented. <br>




<br>For many of the Toolserver tools there is no shared repository. Effectively this denies the possibility of best practices. The relevance of the new Toolserver internationalisation is that any tool worth its salt is welcome and with an almost daily update of localisations its use will be improved.<br>




<br>Srikanth, it is not even clear from your message what the X! edit counter is, why we should care. I am quite happy to blog about it once best practices are established.<br>Thanks,<br>      GerardM<div><div></div><div>


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On 7 April 2011 12:50, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">




Just to inform you guys that translation for X!&#39;s edit counter is being done on <a href="http://En.wikipedia.org" target="_blank">En.wikipedia.org</a> <br>Regards, <br><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">




On 6 April 2011 20:53, Tanvir Rahman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wikitanvir@gmail.com" target="_blank">wikitanvir@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Great step indeed. Many thanks to Krinkle. Toolserver tools are being used frequently. And I would like to announce that Bengali is the first sub-continental language to complete the translation 100%. :D<br>






</font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 04:05, Gerard Meijssen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com" target="_blank">gerard.meijssen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>





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Hoi,<br>I am really happy to announce that the first Toolserver tools can now be localised at <a href="http://translatewiki.net" target="_blank">translatewiki.net</a>. Thanks to the hard work of Krinkle the first tools make use of the &quot;Intuition&quot; messaging framework. People who know Toolserver, will know that there are many useful tools that help understand, manage, experience Wikimedia projects.<br>








<br>With these first Toolserver tools available now for a few hours, the first localisations have been added and the first languages have already complete localisations at twn. The messages will become available at least at the same rate as the MediaWiki messages (typically every day) so localisation is an extremely effective way of making Toolserver an environment that is accessible to people who speak your language.<br>








Thanks,<br>      GerardM<br><br><a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Toolserver" target="_blank">https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Toolserver</a><br><a href="http://toolserver.org/%7Ekrinkle/TsIntuition/#tab-about" target="_blank">http://toolserver.org/~krinkle/TsIntuition/#tab-about</a><br>








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