2010/8/9 Helder Geovane heldergeovane@gmail.com:
Would a "prototype wiki" be a good place to make it possible for Portuguese community to test the Language Conversion in practice?
Sounds good to me personally, although I'll ask some other people to weigh in. I personally like the idea of a world where the standard response to "hey we wanna play with this thing and it's all coded up already" is "sure, lemme set you up with a prototype wiki".
We are considering[1][2] the possibility of using the system to handle regional differences in the written Portuguese, but it seems that the editors need more contact with the system before they can decide in favour or agains an efective use of the conversion system at pt.wikipedia. We have made some drafts of the PHP code[3] which is needed to start, and set of possible global conversion rules for some variants[4].
What should we do to have a prototype wiki for this, if that is possible?
You should start with getting your code in SVN. If it is or can be written in a way that makes it easy to disable (or if there's some other caveat such as it not doing anything if the conversion tables are empty), it can be committed straight to trunk. If this is not possible, it can be put in a branch, but trunk would really be preferred here, and disableability should be relatively easy to accomplish.
Then when it's agreed that this should go on a prototype wiki, Ryan or I will set up the wiki and configure it, and it'll be all yours.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)