Message: 8 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Check boxes and other articles counts From: Erik Moeller e.moeller@fokus.gmd.de To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Date: 12 Nov 2002 11:06:05 +0100 Reply-To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org 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?
I think there was a misunderstanding there. The time delay was to discuss something new, not for the translation. A translation can be done very quickly of course. It can be changed later on if people don't like it - by the people who don't like it ;-) (which is why some part of the fr.wiki are still in english, some don't like it, but they don't do the job themselves...)
That it may be hard to understand in some cases is true, we probably
need a >demo wiki
Yes, this would be nice.
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.
There is no *right* person. Everybody should be part of the right person. But the majority don't care, so it won't be done.
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
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.
Nope. Some people are easier to understand than others. And 85 messages is more than demanding :-) I got totally lost in Larry's very long and circonvoluted messages and multiple answers. For sure, now I have little idea left of who propose what. And I didnot understand tmc at all;-)
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: [Save page] [Show preview] Any clearer?
Absolutely. Great idea ! I like it.
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.
It sometimes is very hard to distinguish what is gonna be only on the en. and what is gonna be everywhere.
I thank you very much for your answers Erik.
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