On Thursday 06 December 2007 05:44:25 am jdd wrote: > Hello :-) > > there are three main goals when somebody wants to translate the > english wiki in an other langage: > > *first translation of as many pages as possible > *be warned of the new pages > *update any already translated modified page > > We need some sort of help to do so. > > -first an "untranslated pages" special page on the english wiki. > > This page should compare the page names on the english wiki and the > page of the *same name* on any localized wiki (on demand) and list the > pages that don't match. Seems easy to do (don't need to be realtime). > Remember, any localized wiki should first have a page with the very > same title than the english one with a redirection to the translated > title page. > > This page would be enough to cope for the two first cases listed first
We can include special comment with <!-- translate: original_title --> that will be visible to bot, that way we can avoid redirects. I don't know how bot login (to edit pages) will work with Novell ICS login. > -second there should be some sort of script (server side) rising some > sort of flag on the localized page when the timestamp of the english > page is younger than the localized one. I would vote for a yellow > exclamation mark written in the localized (making it also appear in > the recent changes special page) > > is it possible to have such tools (or similar)? > > thanks > jdd Sure it is possible. The Wikipedia call them bot. They can be invisible in recent changes page. The same thoughts I have for Portal, but as I know only a limited bash scripting I need serious help from somebody that knows some better tool (perl,php,...) to tell me where to start. I know part of answer:"Buy ... for dummies." -- Regards, Rajko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
