[Chapter-delegates] Chapters Wiki

[Luc Faubert]

Thanks for your feedback Marcin. See my comments further down...


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org 
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf 
> Of Marcin Cieslak
> Sent: 27 juin 2007 21:43
> To: Franck Martin
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Chapters Wiki
> 
> Franck Martin wrote:
> > It is a site maned by volunteers, so we need volunteers, to 
> put news 
> > and to translate them.
> 
> 1) I propose to update the description under "Creating 
> multilingual versions of news items" and put as the first 
> bulleted point:
> 
> "1. Create translated version of the article as a new post 
> using instructions above." (put better Enlish here)
> 
> (I read this description twice and obviously missed that 
> crucial information in the introductory sentence).
> 
> Obviously(?) "Edit Translation" feature is just meant to 
> create a link between existing articles, not to edit the 
> translation itself.
> 

Done.


> 2) It took me a while to figure out that a list of articles 
> in the second dropdown is just a list of all articles in all 
> other languages except the current one. Is this correct?
> 

Yes, correct. As the documentation states, this is where you select the
other language versions of your news item to associate them to its
original language version.

> 3) Is it possible to put the description under "Creating 
> multilingual versions of news items" on the very "Edit 
> translation" page?
> Or perhaps maybe some link titled "Translate article" also in 
> the "Application menu".
> 

I'll check with Franck.

> 4) Is there any way to edit existing post item and save it 
> under different language? That would make the process much 
> easier (and more intuitive) since one usually overwrites 
> original text while translating. It could save time and spare 
> the effort if the translated version had the same metadata as 
> the original (except for the Publish date probably).
> 

Sorry, can't be done, from what I know at least. I agree it would be
useful to have a "Save as" feature. What I usually do is copy the text
from the orginal news item and insert in a new one to type over it. It's
not optimal of course, since you have to redo all the rest of the field
selections.

> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>               << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>
>