Integration with IMSLP

Integration with IMSLP

Hi! I just discovered your project and I asked on IMSLP if they would be interested in a collaboration with TranslateWiki. Feldmahler replied that "Unfortunately I do not think IMSLP has enough programming staff to implement a full interface with TranslateWiki." (see full answer here). I'm not a developer, so I cannot offer help, have you guys helped some other project to provide support to your platform? IMSLP would be a great addition! :) --Micru 13:09, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

13:09, 17 September 2011

It is a standard MediaWiki extension, right? Why doesn't it use the standard way to do i18n?

Nike13:41, 17 September 2011

Since I don't know the answer I forwarded your questions to Feldmahler. I'm sure he can provide you with better information than me. I'll repost here his answer asap.

Micru15:35, 17 September 2011
 

Here is the reply by Feldmahler:
"I'm not entirely sure what Nike means by "standard". If he means having a separate i18n PHP file, then the problem is that it does not support user translations out of the box. If he means using the MediaWiki namespace, then the problems are (1) it is even less user friendly than the current setup, and (2) the database lookups are probably pretty expensive in comparison. It seems to me that the transaction costs of using TranslateWiki is proportionally much larger for IMSLP because IMSLP is not a dedicated software development team (or more precisely, is written by me alone), and do not have all the bells and whistles set up for such a collaboration."
What do you think, Nike? Do you think it is worth to look further into it?

Micru19:38, 18 September 2011

I don't think he understands how the MW extension i18n process works. The first step would be to thoroughly explain how it works.

Nike19:51, 18 September 2011

Is there any documentation or webpage describing the i18n process?

Micru22:07, 18 September 2011
Siebrand23:28, 18 September 2011

So you wrote: "Hi Siebrand! Many thanks for your link. I've been reading the info, however I don't think all the concerns are addressed there. The main one was to "support user translations out of the box", that is, to use the current translations until everything has been migrated to TranslateWiki... I think there is a lot of "Copy and paste" work to do there... but I might be wrong... Have you ever done a migration like that before? My php skills are almost zero, but if you could take care of the technical part, I could surely take care of the line-by-line migration. What do you think? Are you up to it?" (please do not create a new thread on my talk page).

Siebrand11:06, 19 September 2011

Our standard reply is: If it's a MediaWiki extension that users the standard MediaWiki internationalisation, and if it is in http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ we will support it. Otherwise, we will most likely not be able to support it.

Siebrand11:10, 19 September 2011