Since there were no objections, I have committed the patch for the watchlist checkbox in article edit mode (Magnus has given me CVS access). I have checked out a second copy and tested it quite thoroughly, but let me know if there are any problems.
Note that I obviously don't have all translations, so I hope people will eventually send us the translated strings.
I have also sent a request for further feedback regarding the sidebar links to wikipedia-l, and will commit that patch as well if there are no objections.
If anyone actually reads this mail, I would appreciate some advice: Is there a way to tell CVS to ignore my LocalSettings.php? .cvsignore only ignores files that are not in the repository.
Regards,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
Since there were no objections, I have committed the patch for the watchlist checkbox in article edit mode (Magnus has given me CVS access). I have checked out a second copy and tested it quite thoroughly, but let me know if there are any problems.
Note that I obviously don't have all translations, so I hope people will eventually send us the translated strings.
I have also sent a request for further feedback regarding the sidebar links to wikipedia-l, and will commit that patch as well if there are no objections.
If anyone actually reads this mail, I would appreciate some advice: Is there a way to tell CVS to ignore my LocalSettings.php? .cvsignore only ignores files that are not in the repository.
Regards,
Erik
Not that i have objections against this change, but changes to the software/userinterfase of the Wikipedias should be announced formaly and well in advance.
Somthing like this; Give 3 weeks notice. Send a message to Intlwiki-l like this;
(first week) Subject:[RFD]Software change announcement
Explain what you want to change and why. Give a change for discussion to change mayby somthing. The ambassadors or then announce the posibel change to there Wikipedias
(second week) Subject:[NOTICE1]Software change announcement
Explain the change. Tell what you need. Like translations of some words. Tell to who to send them.
Tell when the change will be done.
(3th week) Subject:[NOTICE2]Software change announcement
Explain the change. Tell what you need. Like translations of some words. Tell to who to send them.
Tell when the change will be done. (end of the week)
On 11/11/02 11:29 AM, "Giskart" giskart@wikipedia.be wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Since there were no objections, I have committed the patch for the watchlist checkbox in article edit mode (Magnus has given me CVS access). I have checked out a second copy and tested it quite thoroughly, but let me know if there are any problems.
Actually, I did object. And Giskart is right.
Not that i have objections against this change, but changes to the software/userinterfase of the Wikipedias should be announced formaly and well in advance.
Somthing like this; Give 3 weeks notice. Send a message to Wikipedia-L and Intlwiki-l like this;
(first week) Subject:[RFD]Software change announcement
Explain what you want to change and why. Give a change for discussion to change mayby somthing. The ambassadors or then announce the posibel change to there Wikipedias
(second week) Subject:[NOTICE1]Software change announcement
Explain the change. Tell what you need. Like translations of some words. Tell to who to send them.
Tell when the change will be done.
(3th week) Subject:[NOTICE2]Software change announcement
Explain the change. Tell what you need. Like translations of some words. Tell to who to send them.
Tell when the change will be done. (end of the week)
Not that i have objections against this change, but changes to the software/userinterfase of the Wikipedias should be announced formaly and well in advance. Somthing like this; Give 3 weeks notice.
This is way too long. I don't have time to track each individual patch over three weeks, especially since patches become obsolete quite quickly as other changes are committed. Besides, intwiki-l is not for feature discussion (see the list description). wikitech-l is, and if feature discussion concerns wikipedia policies, it should be copied/moved to wikipedia-l.
Notice that the above policy is not used by anyone else either, so I don't even see why you bring it up. Members of the international Wikipedias that want to take part in feature discussions should subscribe to wikitech-l and/or wikipedia-l, if we spread this stuff over three lists, we'll never get anything done.
What I can agree on is to send strings that need to be translated to intwiki-l before committing a change, and to wait a few days for translations to come in, then to commit the change together with the translations. But if not all translations come in within a reasonable amount of time, they will have to be added later, meaning that the user interface will have some English in it until the translations are submitted. If you check some of the international Wikipedias, you will notice that this is the case for quite a few of them, for features with which I had nothing to do.
Regards,
Erik
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