2011/3/23 Ariel T. Glenn <ar...@wikimedia.org>:
> Στις 23-03-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 02:03 +0100, ο/η Platonides έγραψε:
>> Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>> > So having a possibility to have a pre-flight test of the translation
>> > (or even watch the demo of the original in action) is something
>> > Selenium could deinitely help.  In many cases, translators
>> > do not have permission to experience some interface in the live
>> > environment (CheckUser, AbuseFilter, etc.). Could Selenium
>> > solve this problem as well? Is it just mocking up the interface
>> > or do I need a instance behind that is somehow setup somewhere?
>> >
>> > //Marcin
>>
>> It needs a tests instance.
>
> I've been beating this drum for years (that translators need to be able
> to see their message(s) in context).  But having to watch an automated
> test suite exercise all of the features of an extension in order to
> check the 5 new messages you are translating, seems less than efficient.
>
> What would be nice for a first take would be if, from translatewiki, one
> could click a link that would take one to a list of screens that show
> the message in question, with the text highlighted even.  Even if the
> only thing we had to work from was a display of the English language
> texts in context, that would still be a big step up from where we are
> now.

Yes, and the other way around is also possible and probably even
easier to implement - from a wiki to translatewiki. I just opened an
enhancement suggestion about it:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28191

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