oHi everybody, I don't really know if this list is the right place to start the discussion, but I'll force my luck.
We have a usecase in Wikidata for property proposals where we use templates to internationalize Property Proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ Wikidata is a central place for community, like commons, and it's important for this place to make this place friendly for non english-speaker. Amongst other problems it's a blocker for some Wikipedians, or it does not help at least, to contribute or discuss in a different language than their home language. Discussions in Wikidata can lead to important or technical decisions, so this is more important than say, in commons to handle correctly languages. If we sum-up the stuffs we have to di this, we mainly have and use: * The translate extension * Ad-hoc template The translate extension works, but it needs some administration to be functional and this is not really adapted because to heavy for frenquently updated pages like property proposals. It also requires interventions in the initial page like wikitext annotations, and this unfortunately can be a community problem - The translation of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Taxonomy for example does not exists because, apparently, one of the main contributors thinks it complicates the editions of the project page and reverted the attempts to prepare the page for translation. Ad-hoc templates like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:TranslateThis are used to translate the property proposals atm. The actual problem that pushed me to write this mail is related to this : * each property proposal as its own section in the page * it's convenient for discussions to point to a section in a link by using the section name But ... the titles are translated using translate this, which make the title section not stable and can then break the links, make the histories unreadable ... so there is (I think) an anchor added by the template. But this make the history unreadable. To address this problem Yair Rand proposed an ad-how hacky gadget to have a cleaner history : https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tools#Gadget_proposal:_User:Yair_rand.2FEditTranslatedSections.js The subsequent discussion lead me there : Maybe Flow could be of some help : its section ids are stable, but ... again we can't use template in Flow titles. So my question would be : I understood the Flow team switched to a more "Workflow oriented" orientation. Where can we contact you/them to discuss the needs like this one ? Can we be sure translations problematics will be took into account in this Flow follos-up ? Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
