On 10-Aug-2010, at 11:05, Roan Kattouw wrote:
2010/8/10 Andrew Garrett
<agarrett(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> I do notice that the "Preview" button for sentence-level editing
> doesn't quite work (it shows the old text). There's some stuff
> missing, but I assume that this is because it's not finished yet.
Ah, I guess I wasn't quite clear on that. These are "prototypes",
user-interface mashups, without actual server-side logic behind it.
The next step of the project will be to write the server-side stuff that matches the
sentences, and find out how good this his, what the edge-cases are and how those are
handled, etc.
Finally, it can be made to a working plugin which only does the sentence-editing. The
other things like references, images, etc. are a bit harder. These can be built one-by-one
to extend this editor, but I think that only the sentence-level editor can be quite useful
already.
Besides, with only the ability to edit the sentences there will be enough challenges
already: performance, security, handling edit collisions, localization, etc.
Anyway, it would take quite a while to be able to do everything shown in the third
prototype. It shows what we *could* have eventually. The plan is that in half a year the
second prototype will be fully functional and available as an extension.
Best regards, Jan Paul