Hi Anthere,
Please do consider that it is probably not worth telling us anything under at least a week notice. Not enough time to understand, then to translate
Um, how much work is it to translate two text strings? That it may be hard to understand in some cases is true, we probably need a demo wiki to better demonstrate functionality (there's one at piclab.com/wiki, but I don't have access to its code).
I am officially asking that the international wikipedia list be discarded.
I'm not the right person to talk to here, but I tend to agree. The wikipedia-l list *is* crowded, though, so perhaps we need a different kind of separation.
However, also realise that just doing so will prevent international wikipedias to have any real involvement in general policy matters. Today, in 5 hours, my mail box received 85 messages. I do not feel fluent in english enough to read all of them.
Your English is more than good enough to be no excuse ;-). Traffic can get a bit demanding, I agree.
Notice that the above policy is not used by anyone
else either, >so I don't even see why you bring it up.
So, if I follow you, not having other people follow policies is enough reason for you not to follow them enough ? If so, why are these policies still there ?
They are not. Giskart is, to my knowledge, the first person to bring this up.
However, to tell the truth, I won't be able to translate your feature for the very good reason that though I tried to concentrate very hard on it, I have not being able to understand what that checkbox in the watch list was all about. I just couldnot figure what you were talking about.
OK, here's how it will look. You edit an article:
'''Biology''' is the study of [[life]] and its processes. The term_ biology was coined in the late [[1700s]] by the French naturalist__ Pierre-Antoine de Monet, Jean-Baptiste de [[Lamarck]]. ____________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________
Summary: __________ [ ] This is a minor edit [ ] Watch this article
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Note that the above will probably look awful if your e-mail client displays mail in a proportional font (that is, variable width letters).
The "Watch this article" box, when checked, means that the article will be added to your watchlist (an existing feature, but previously only accessible using the "Watch this article" link).
Furthermore, if the user preference "Watch new and modified articles" is activated, this checkbox will be active by default whenever you edit an article. You can still deactivate it, though.
Any clearer?
Also, I have read your proposition (that if I understood well you decided to implement today if nobody complained about it...maybe some answers are in the 85 messages...) about the counting of articles.
That's a misunderstanding, I'll change the navigation bar of the English Wikipedia only as agreed upon on wikipedia-l. The article count is on my to do list, but if anyone else wants to implement this, be my guest. If implemented, it will likely be done in such a way that it will still be possible to use the previous count.
Regards,
Erik