Re: [Imc-japan] samizdat [patch #6167] monolanguage-0.1 - features + updates on frontpage are optionally shown monolingually (fwd)

[boud]

hi again

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, boud wrote:

> hi samizdat-devel, imc-japan,
>
> This is a patch for samizdat as described below. Personally i think it's
> better to show articles in a lower priority language rather than not show
> them at all. However, i understand that for some people this is discouraging.
>
> So here's a patch which i think paul from imc japan may like. :)
>
> A working example is to go to the IMC Torun site:
>
> http://torun.indymedia.org/
>
> Click on "Deutsch" or [Nihongo] - you'll see a mix of articles, mostly
> not in these languages.  Now click on "mono" - top right. For Nihongo,
> at the moment you'll see almost nothing, since almost no articles have
> been translated (sumimasen...). For Deutsch you will see a small bunch
> of articles, both features and non-features.  (If you try Polish,
> English or French, there should be almost no difference with mono or without,
> since many languages are in several of these languages.)
>
> This solution should hopefully keep everyone happy - monolinguists and
> multilinguists - with just one click difference.


The patch version 0.1 does not "monolingualise" (ignore non-preferred
language versions) of "theme" articles which are calendar dates and are
shown in the centre column with version 0.5 of the calendar patch.

A comment that this should/could be fixed has been added to the entry 
for this patch:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?6167

These type of entries (you can see one example on torun.indy right now)
normally only take up a few lines, so provided that several features have
been translated into the preferred language (not the case for Nihongo 
on torun.indy right now, but is the case for de/en/fr), this should 
hopefully not upset the monolingual reader too much.


mata
boud