• http://htaglossary.net/

Features & settings

instructions: Get Started with Multilingual Terminology
preferences:
# The whole thing is based on the wiki feature
 feature_wiki : y

#
# Pages for a term must be available in multiple languages
#
 feature_multilingual : y
 feature_translation: y
 # So you can see a term and its translation on same page
 feature_multilingual_one_page: y
 # So users can specify the languages that they 
 # speak
 change_language: y

#
# Enable templates, so we can provide user with
# templates for terminology entries
#
 feature_wiki_templates: y

#
# User preferences needed so users can specify 
# the languages they are interested in.
#
 feature_userPreferences: y
 feature_mytiki: y


#
# Page title is the term, so it should be displayed
#
 feature_page_title : y

#
# When we try to access a page which has been aliased to
# two different pages, we want the system to ask us
# which of the aliased pages to go to. This is what
# feature_likePages is for.
#
 feature_likePages: y

#
# So site can send out email messages to users?
#
 feature_messages: y

#
# Allow users to undo changes history
#
 feature_wiki_undo: y

#
# Categories can be used to specify domains for terms.
#
# As of 2009-06-10, Category Objects lists all the 
# pages that are tagged with a category. This is WAY too
# long, and takes too much screen real-estate. Need to 
# change code to make list of pages optional
#
# Could also use categorypath, but it is only displayed for
# the first language at the top, and we need it displayed
# for all languages.
#
 feature_categoryobjects: y
 feature_categories: y
 categoryobjects: y
 categorypath: n

#
# Not sure what this is....
#
 wiki_edit_plugin: y

#
# Comments can take too much real-estate. Translators
# mostly want to see the term in source language, and
# its equivalent in target language, and they need
# to visually parse the screen efficiently
# So make comments invisible unless the user
# clicks on it.
#
 feature_wiki_comments: y
 wiki_comments_displayed_default: n

#
# Do we really need freetags?
#
 feature_freetags: y

#
# Need to be able to search for a term
# Maybe we don't need this since we have a custom
# terminology search module 
#
 feature_search: y

# Enable user watches
 feature_user_watches: y

 feature_print_indexed: y
 feature_mytiki: y

#
# Support voting on equivalents for a term
# AD: Not sure which of those features are actually needed.
#     Still experimenting with different voting mechanisms
#
 feature feature_polls: y
 feature_wiki_ratings: y
 wikiplugin_proposal: y

#
# Need a forum for asking terminology questions
#
 feature_forums: y 

#
# Hum... shouldn't we validate users?
#
 validateUsers: n
 allowRegister: y
 validateRegistration: y
 auth_ldap_adminuser: y
 auth_ldap_adminpass: y

#
# Set home page to the terminology help page.
#
 wikiHomePage: Get Started with Multilingual Terminology

Modules and Objects

objects:
#
# Note: terminology module may only be available in trunk
# version, not 3.0.
#

#
# Anonymous users can search for terms, but they won't be
# allowed to modify them.
#
 -
  type: module
  ref: module_terminology
  data:
   name: terminology
   position: right
   groups: [ Anonymous ]
   order: 10   
  -
    type: module
    data:
      name: last_modif_pages
      position: right
      order: 1
      groups: [ Editors, Registered, Admins ]
 -
  type: module
  ref: module_since_last_visit_new
  data:
   name: since_last_visit_new
   position: right
   groups: [ Registered ]
   order: 30
 -
  type: module
  ref: module_switch_lang
  data:
   name: module_switch_lang
   position: right
   groups: [ Registered, Anonymous ] 
   order: 25
 -
  type: forum
  ref: term_fr_en_questions
  data:
   name: Fr <-> En questions
   description: For En, Fr question / Pour des questions entre le français et l'anglais
   attachments: everyone
   enable: [ topic_smiley ]
   list: [ topic_reads ]
 -
  type: forum
  ref: term_es_en_questions
  data:
   name: Es <-> En questions
   description: For En, Fr question / Para preguntas entre Es y En
   attachments: everyone
   enable: [ topic_smiley ]
   list: [ topic_reads ]

Wiki pages included with this profile

objects:
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_include_get_started_with_multilingual_terminology
    data:
      name: Get Started with Multilingual Terminology
      lang: en
      content: wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_include_Get_Started_with_Multilingual_Terminology_include
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_include_admin_page    
    data:
      name: Collaborative Terminology admin page
      lang: en
      content: wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_include_admin_page
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_include_register_and_set_your_languages
    data:
      name: Register and Set your Languages
      lang: en
      content: wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_include_register_and_set_your_languages
  -
    type: template
    ref: Term_Template_en
    data:
      name: Term Template-en
      content: wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_include_Term_Template_en
      sections: [ wiki ]
  -
    type: template
    ref: Term_Template_fr
    data:
      name: Term Template-fr
      content: wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_include_Term_Template_fr
      sections: [ wiki ]
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_wiki_engine
    data:
      name: Wiki engine
      lang: en      
      content:wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_wiki_engine
      translations: [ $collaborative_terminology_platform_moteur_wiki]
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_moteur_wiki
    data:
      name: Moteur wiki
      lang: fr      
      content:wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_moteur_wiki  
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_tagging
    data:
      name: tagging
      lang: en      
      content:wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_tagging
      translations: [ $collaborative_terminology_platform_taggage]
  -
    type: wiki_page
    ref: collaborative_terminology_platform_taggage
    data:
      name: taggage
      lang: fr      
      content:wikicontent:collaborative_terminology_platform_taggage
  -
    type: category
    ref: cateory_term
    data:
      name: term
      description: Base category used for all terms

Permissions

objects:
 -
  ref: Multilingual_Permissions
permissions:
 Anonymous:
  allow:
   -view
   -comment
   -wiki_view_comments
   #
   # Anons can view history, but not roll back changes.
   #
   -wiki_view_history
   -post_comments
   -search
   -search_categorized
   -view_categories
   -forum_read
 Registered:
  description: Will be ignored because group is already created
  allow:
   -view_categories
 Editors:
  description: Can edit & delete all content
  allow:
   -edit
   -rename
   -admin_categories
   -rollback
   -forum_vote
   -forum_post
   -forum_post_topic
   -forum_edit_own_posts
   -forums_report
   -forum_attach
   -forum_autoapp
 Admins:
  description: Have all rights
  allow: [ admin ]

Testing tricks

Todos

Priority 1

BUG: Terminology module does not offer possibility to search in French

Demo terminology entries should be more realistic

Profile should set up a discussion forum

• Mostly done.
• All that's left to do is to make is so that anons see a link to the forums on the left hand side. Right now, they have perms to view forum posts, but they have to know the url of the forum. For some reason, the menu that shows Forums > List Forums (on the left) does not appear for anons.

Testing

• Test profile with non-admin users. Make sure that:
  • Can view entries
  • Can edit entries
  • Can view history
  • Can revert change
  • Can track pages
  • Can post comment
  • Can assign categories
  • Anything else?

Extensive help pages

• Help pages should cover all the common tasks.
• In particualr, it should provide instructions about how to deal with the situation where a same word can refer to different things. For example, Tag can refer to metadata, to a markup element, or to a dog tag. The solution is to create pages with slightly different names, for example "tag - metadata", "tag - markup", "tag - identity plaque".
• Refactor the instructions pages into one long page called "Guide to collaborative multilingual terminology creation". The guide will have a section for Admins, and a section for Editors.
  • Section for editors comes first.
  • Section for editors talks about:
    • Searching for a term
    • Creating a new term
    • Creating an equivalent for a term
    • What to do if a same word can mean different things (create different pages which are more explicit, ex: tag — dog plaque, vs tag — metadata).
    • Tracking certain pages or the whole site
    • Using categories for domain classification
  • Section for admins talks about:
    • Finalizing the installation
    • Keeping abreast of new users
    • Approving new users
    • Tracking the whole site
• The guide should provide instructions about using categories to assign domains. The admin section should suggest that the admin seed the category tree.
• Guide should provide instructions about how to manage users.
  • Ask for email notification of new users.
  • Move new users from Registered to Editors soon after registering.
  • What are the different groups and their permissions.
• Guide should bring users attention to the Last changes module as a way to keep track of what others do. Also, explain the page tracking feature.
• How do I set up the glossary profile and make it multilingual?
• How do I create a glossary entry in say, French?
• Given an entry in say, French, how do I create the corresponding entry in say, English?
• How do I avoid reinventing the wheel? For example, say I create a French entry for word X, and then want to create the corresponding entry Y in English, but someone already created Y, how do I find out about it and tie the two together. In particular, what happens if the existing Y is a very slight variation on the Y that I am currently trying to create (eg: I am creating the verb form, whereas the existing Y used the noun form)?
• I don't want to change an entry... just comment on it.
• How can I respond to someone else's comment?
• Can I create an entry in French that has more than one English equivalent?
• How do I create a domain hierarchy?
• Admin: What is the current permissions scheme, and how do I customize it for my needs?
• How do I specify my source and target language?
• How do I enable a new language?
  • HOw to enable that language in the prefs panel
  • Create a new template for an entry in that language
• Admin: How do I monitor spam, etc...
• Admin: What to do when a new user registers?
• User: how do I ask a terminology queston
  • Create a terminology entry for it, and put a comment asking for its translation.
  • Or, post the question on appropriate discussion forum. Once you have decided which is best, please create a bilingual terminology entry so people will find it more easily later.
• User: How to keep abreast of what's going on?
  • Can ask to watch the whole site...
  • Or, can ask to watch a partiular forum
  • By default, may be notified of changes made to pages you created, or to forum posts that you create.

Translate guide to French

• Make it so that the guide is available in French and English.

Priority 2

When translating to an existing page name, system should offer you to link the two of them

If exact term is found, go directly to it

Forum postings should allow empty text

Make it possible to use Categories for domains

• Should editors be allowed to create/modify/delete categories, or should it just be admins?
• May need to change code a bit so that the categories don't take so much real estate.
• Should each category be multilingual, or should we have parallel category hierarchies in different language?

Figure out the right level of tracking

• By default, users should be setup to track certain things. What should those things be:
  • Track pages that they themselves created?
  • Track creation of new pages (i.e. new terms), so that they can track implicit terminology questions from other users?

Tracking a page should also track its translations

• If I create a term in English for which I don't know the French equivalent, as a way of implictly asking a question. Then, when someone actually translates that page to create a French equivalent, I should be notified of that.
• But right now, that does not happen.
• Note: Maybe a better way to ask a question is to use a discussion forum. See todo regarding forum.

Priority 3

When translating, only list languages that I speak

Automatically select language of equivalent when possible

• If I translate a term to another language, if there is only one language left in the user's language preferences, for which a translation of that term does not exist, then automatically select that language by default.
• For example, if I have set only En and Fr as my languages, and I am translating an En term, then system should automatically select Fr by default for the translated page.

Allow people to vote on the best equivalent

Terminology module should validate that Terminology PROFILE has been applied

• The Terminology module should check that the Terminology profile has been applied. If it hasn't, it should display a highly visible warning telling the admin to apply that profile (and providing a link with instructions on how to do this... for example, a link to the profile itself, and the profile would have instructions on how to apply it.)
  • Done, but the link that points to how to install the profile could be more specific. It could point to the admin page for applying the profile.

Automatic translation of labels when creating an equivalent

• Say I have a page "web browser", and I want to create its French equivalent "navigateur web".
• I click on Translate button.
• The content of the English page is pasted into the French page.
• The problem is that all the labels like Synonyms, Definition, must be translated.
• And they need to be translated in a standardized way.
• It would be nice if these could be translated automatically.
• Here's a generic way in which this could be done.
• When we create a new translation, the system will automatically translate occurrences of an English page name, to the name of the corresponding French page.
• So, now all we need to do create an English page Synonym with a French equivalent Synonymes.
• This feature would be useful in other ways.
• It would automatically translate links to English pages into links to French pages.
• It would automatically translate English terminology to French terminology (often, terms are captured as pages, even on sites where Terminology profile is not used).
• Question: Won't that be too slow?

Alias search should respect language

• Right now, if you search for a word in English, and there is an alias for that word that corresponds to a French page, the alias will be listed.
• The list of aliases should instead be filtered on the basis of the language of the page they refer to.

Priority 4

Create all terms in a same category called Term

• Terms should all be created in a same categorry called Term. Search and page creation form for the Terminology module should use that category. Make the seeded pages in the profile part of that category.
• Note: The list of aliases should be filtered, so that we onlyh show aliases for pages that are in that category.

Misc

• Put a new users dashboard for admins, so they can move new users to the Editors group.

• Need language indicator in front of the term in the list of equivalents. Ex: fr: Fil RSS, en: RSS feed.

Related wishes

• Creation of wiki page: enter description and wiki page name is suggested (but editable)

Alias

• Terminology
• Collaborative Multilingual Terminology
• Collaborative Terminology
• Multilingual Terminology