Tuesday, January 08, 2008

CentralAuth and FlaggedRevs

CentralAuth and FlaggedRevs are MediaWiki extensions. They are quite special because they are extensions that we are waiting for to be implemented. CentralAuth is better known as SUL or Single User Login and FlaggedRevs is flagged revisions.

There may be all kinds of reasons why they have not gone live yet, I am happy to say that localisation is not one of them as the localisation has been done for many languages. There are few practical things that we can do to make a polite point that we would really really really have these extensions go live. Localisation is such a polite way.

I invite you all to check the statistics and if your language is not there yet goto BetaWiki and help us localise the 59 messages for CentralAuth and the 122 messages for FlaggedRevs.

Please Brion, consider this as well in your planning ...

Thanks,
GerardM

2 comments:

MovGP0 said...

because it fits into thepicture:
The
Semantic MediaWiki Extension has released recently and is currently searching for translators (except for english, german and chinese)

Both, FlaggedRevs and SMW are ready for implementation. CentralAuth is still unstable and therefore not suitable for implementation. Anyway, tranlation is a good part to get it finished.

GerardM said...

The nice people of BetaWiki have been in contact with the nice people of Semantic MediaWiki (I know them both :) ) and are quite happy to help SMW to go the extra mile and use the standard way for localisation. They have been doing this for some of the extensions of MLMW like "drill down" I understand.

"Localisation is an architecture" a friend of mine always says, and you have to connect to the translators to find them.