Message: 8
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Check boxes and other
articles counts
From: Erik Moeller <e.moeller(a)fokus.gmd.de>
To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: 12 Nov 2002 11:06:05 +0100
Reply-To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Hi Anthere,
> Please do consider that it is probably not worth
> telling us anything under at least a week notice.
Not
enough time to
understand, then to translate
Um, how much work is it to translate two text
strings?
I think there was a misunderstanding there. The time
delay was to discuss something new, not for the
translation. A translation can be done very quickly of
course. It can be changed later on if people don't
like it - by the people who don't like it ;-) (which
is why some part of the fr.wiki are still in english,
some don't like it, but they don't do the job
themselves...)
That it may be
hard to understand in some cases is true, we probably
need a >demo wiki
Yes, this would be nice.
I am
officially asking that the international
wikipedia list be discarded.
I'm not the right person to talk to here, but I
tend
to agree.
There is no *right* person. Everybody should be part
of the right person. But the majority don't care, so
it won't be done.
> However, also realise that just doing so will
prevent
> international wikipedias to have any real
involvement
> in general policy matters. Today, in 5 hours, my
mail
box received
85 messages. I do not feel fluent in
english enough to read all of them.
Your English is more than good enough to be no
excuse
;-). >Traffic can get a bit demanding, I agree.
Nope. Some people are easier to understand than
others. And 85 messages is more than demanding :-)
I got totally lost in Larry's very long and
circonvoluted messages and multiple answers. For sure,
now I have little idea left of who propose what.
And I didnot understand tmc at all;-)
> However, to tell the truth, I won't be able
to
> translate your feature for the very good reason
that
> though I tried to concentrate very hard on it, I
have
> not being able to understand what that checkbox in
the
> watch list was all about. I just couldnot figure
what
you were
talking about.
OK, here's how it will look. You edit an article:
[Save page] [Show preview]
Any clearer?
Absolutely. Great idea ! I like it.
That's a misunderstanding, I'll change the
navigation
bar of >the English Wikipedia only as agreed upon on
wikipedia-l. The >article count is on my to do list,
but if anyone else wants to >implement this, be my
guest. If implemented, it will likely be >done in such
a way that it will still be possible to use the
previous count.
It sometimes is very hard to distinguish what is gonna
be only on the en. and what is gonna be everywhere.
I thank you very much for your answers Erik.
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