User:Birgit Lachner/Wiki-Manual-Ideas
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In my opionion, we need a good organisation not only to have a lice look but also to organize and automatize some of the work.
Wikimedia-Possibilities
Use
- templates/infoboxes see english example here oder german page
- namespaces
- categories
- Bots
Guidelines
For this, the following should be done and written down in a kind of guideline (like here) for authors:
- Use for every knowledge-page (every command, mode,menu-entry,property and view-part) a specials template, so that every page has the same parts.
- Define the way how the translated pages (english is basic!) should be named.
- Command:Function ... I'm not very professional, but may be we can use namespaces to organize the knowledge-pages
- Command:Funktion (Deutsch)
- Command:Fonction (Francais)
- Prepare translation-boxes as templates to link from one language to another ... may be there can be a template for every knowledge-page that can be used in every language.
Translation-Help
I used at a german school-wiki a bot for a very short-time, and so I think that one or some more bots can help a lot to automatize some of the work that needs to be done for translation. If every knowledge-page has the same structure a bot might be possible to:
- create a list of every knowledge-page in english and let space for the translators to translate the words
- use this translated word-list to create new wikipages in the given translation-style (look above) and copy the official part of every english knowledge-page to this new pages where the translators can do their work, even with already translated headings
- if new knowledge-pages are added to bot can find them do the same as described before
- ?? changes in the official-part are recognized ... may be it's easier to do this by a kind of watchlist for the translators of every language
Knowlegde-Page
There are some kinds of knowledge-words (I don't call them keywords here, because there are many more keywords ) like
- commands
- modes
- properties
- views and view-parts
- menu-items
- scripting
May be the organisation in wordspaces like Command:Function and View:Algebra-Window is an idea but I do't know all the possibilities that are avaiable for namespaces.
At every knowledge-page there should be an official part that contains the most basic informations. A template can used to create this part and later used to work with bots for translation-organisation.
After the offical part the users can add more thinks like:
- give some more examples even with pictures and little tips
- show tricks for the advaned users and geeks
- link to related topics to solve problems with a special command
As the english pages would be more detailled every translated knowledge-page should link back to the english page, that even contains a box with the translated words in every language where a translation exists (????? not too much) ...
