I would have
expected this reply on CR, without need of the previous
mail. :( Good to know anyway. I guess that the deletions should be
normally requested at [[Support]]?
I gave you a reply on CR (my second comment):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/102166#code-comments
I had missed your second comment. You indeed explained it there. Call me
a fool.
Absolutly. Documentation can be improved.. Bug 1?
*hides*
I agree. Especially since I ended up asking if TWN had a FAQ, because I
didn't find a link to it... o_O
We are constantly looking for help, as mentioned in the
translatewiki.net front page. In the past I've been server
administrator, programer, software designer, software documentation
writer, translator, marketer, usability engineer, interaction
designer, performance engineer, security expert, legal expert, wiki
documentation writer, artist, visual designer, user support person,
project support person, translation importer&exporter, i18n
consultant, new project integration support, website statistics
analyzer and what else for
translatewiki.net. The fact is that this is
a collaborative project and I suck at most of the things I just
mentioned ;). So even though we have many great persons working for
twn, there are areas that are not getting attention. If you have ever
wanted to help us, there sure are ways to do it.
I'm very surprised to hear that there are a communication problems
(leaving Daniel's case out for now, which has different origins). The
administrators (and even translators) of
translatewiki.net are almost
100% also part of the MediaWiki community. We are active on code
review, we hang out on IRC, we visit conferences and other events and
usually responds to any questions quickly. There should be plenty of
opportunities to reach us, ask questions and interact with us.
Or is the problem that people prefer written documentation to the
extend that if it is not there they don't even bother to ask? I refuse
to believe we are too scary to be asked (see image on [1] :).
My main problem is that I don't understand it, translatewiki grew to be
quite complex (probably with reason), so I need to ask. :)
I may try to find out things for myself (eg. grep for UILANGCODE in
trunk/extensions), and you'll notice that I indeed got to
#mediawiki-i18n when I get a doubt about it. I may be lucky and get an
answer from someone which is there and already knows, or nobody may be
active at that time. So when reaching a dead end I may not be taking a
fully optimal path. :)
Note that although unusual, CodeReview is also asking. I may proceed to
in the future.
Things like having the FAQ at the sidebar might help. I find extrange
that the first sidebar link requires me to login (too used to that being
Main Page? Maybe I'm unconsciously expecting it to be an explanation
text linking to Special:FirstSteps as a wizard).
Most links on the Main Page also give permission errors, which doesn't
help self-documenting.
Best regards