Last modified: 2007-03-29 20:08:11 UTC
1. Klicking the button "Show only modified" aka {{MediaWiki:Allmessagesmodified}} does (after a long while) show only entries with modifies texts. Klicking a second time reverts to "show all". I suggest to change the button text to say so. 2. There is no "Show only unmodified" option. I suggest having one, which would obviously come handy when translating the interface. 1+2: I suggest to combine those selections into radiobuttons, or a <selext>-structure, with 3 options: "Show all", "Show only modified", "Show only unmodified" 3. Since one, when translating the interface, might not be interested in changes made in the previous default language before the translation process started, I suggest contemplating an additional choice of "Show only (un)modified before/after 'somedate'" (if that's not too complicated) (Another way towards this goal might be adding a checkbox to each field, or a "comments" field, with an option to perform selections against it) 4. The "Message name filter" field should be accompanied by an explanatory text, saying: a. that filtering is case sensitive, b. names are matched, when the characters you typed in the form appear as a substring anywhere inside the name c. you have to type them one by one, waiting for the selection according to characters 1..n be made and displayed, before typing character (n+1) will be possible, d. depending on system type and speed, the script performing each of those selections is likely to lock you computer (or Browser) up for minutes, e. putting a cursor (back) into the "Message name filter" field will re-start the selection proccess, be it necessary, or not, f. "Show only modified" will be automatically de-selected by hitting the "Message name filter" field, with or without entering data. 5. Since observation 4.f in its present form appears undesirable to me, I suggest to either: include message name filtering under the abovementioned radio button choices, or - my preference - have it act in addition to them. 6. Since observation 4.d appears very undesirable to me, I suggest to add a blinking "selection being processed - please wait", or similar, display, box, an hourglass, or something else of that kind, while the script is perfoming a selection. 7. On multitasking systems, allow other tasks to execute while selections are being made. 8. Since 4.c, 4.d, 4.e appear undesirable, I suggest to a. add a checkbox or single radio button to enable/disable the selection script, b. immediately interupt the script at each character typed into the "Message name filter" field, or a klick made to any of the other selector fields; restart/continue its operatation only if there was a change of parameters, or the selection had not been completed already before.
The javascript based filtering is going to be removed because of blocking issues in some browsers. It may or may not be replaced with server side filtering, depending on how much it is needed. I have the code on my own wiki, but it's not cleaned up for production use, and depends on the restructuring of all language files. Anyway it would solve the technical problems you mentioned (message name filtering would be removed to make way for more usefull settings).
Please don't file reports where the summaries contain negative language like that again, ever. It's downright offensive and implies a lack of care and concern, which is certainly not the case.
Understood. These are the filters I use most often while translating: - "displayed" or "final" message content (I use browser "search" on the Special:Allmessages HTML page) - "raw" mesage content (I use browser "search" on the Special:Allmessages PHP page) in either case, some target strings, e.g. "talk", cannot be located since they appear too often elsewhere in the page. - not yet translated? (look up by hand) Also very helpful would be: - selection by "field of application", "context", or target page, so as to translate contextual message snippets in their respective context, - a means to inspect and verify pages that the wiki with its curent data base, installation, etc. does not display, e.g. "there is no article in this wiki", "cannot ...XYZ... because wgXYZ was not selected", "data base access timed out", etc. @Rob Church: btw. I am restoring the Summary text to my original, which had been replaced by Niklas Laxström with comment #1. If there is an offense in it, it's purely unintentional. Please amend if you feel so.
My apologies.
*** Bug 7925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The responsiveness of the javascript filter should be somewhat improved by r18373; the main improvement is, paradoxically enough, a delay that keeps the filter from kicking in until you stop typing for half a second. Unfortunately, there's no getting around the basic fact that Special:Allmessages is a huge page, and any changes to it take a while to render.
