Utilisateur:BenoitL:Fosdem2007
Un article de MDC.
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[modifier] MDC in French: Key people
- Utilisateur:Chbok
- active since june 2005 — 500+ edits
- Utilisateur:BenoitL
- active since july 2005 — 1000+ edits
- Utilisateur:Fredchat
- active since february 2006 — 500+ edits
- Utilisateur:VincentN
- active since october 2006, mostly proofreading — 100+ edits
[modifier] Prioritizing content
How do we choose on what to work?
- Personal interest
- I like technology X, I find it cool (ie. canvas, css3 columns)
- People are not aware enough of problem Y (ie. standards, accessibility issues)
- Popularity
- 200 most viewed pages in English: people /need/ this information (could be more than 200, depending on the team size)
[modifier] Motivation
Why do we keep working in it?
- Personal interest
- (same as above)
- Completeness
- the Y reference should be more complete
- Competition?
- graphs on [1] — see pl vs. fr vs. ja
[modifier] Quality
- Follow some guidelines (translation guide from Sun[2]), not too strictly
- Proofreading is important. Overal quality grows over time, but everyone makes mistakes (tiredness, unfamiliar subject, etc.) In an ideal world: 1 translator, 1 editor, 1 proofreader. Often, 1 person has two of three of these roles (ok for short technical references, problematic for long articles/tutorials)
[modifier] The Big Issue
- Keeping the existing content up to date while extending our reach
- English "Recent Changes" is not enough (explain why?)
- Sudently changes of the structures in some English wiki part
[modifier] What we need
- To know if some page we have translated has changed in a significant manner (minor change is an indicator, maybe not enough)
- Possible solutions include automatic tagging (bot) "This translation could be obsolete"
- Prioritize according to page views, delta changed, time elapsed
[modifier] Dependencies
- Interlang bot should work fast (faster?)
- Tools (bots?) should not alter the stats significantly (page views)
[modifier] Nice to have
- Subjects in need of attention (fast growing interest: new entries in the top 100, 500) -> make an RSS feed of that?
- From those subjects, which ones are not translated yet?