Last modified: 2014-10-16 10:24:47 UTC
1. Special:PagePreparation does not prefill its pagename field when it's been called as Special:PagePreparation/fullpagename or as Special:PagePreparation?title=fullpagename. If it would be, then a button can be added to the Toolbox to initiate the translation process. The current process requires re-entry of the pagename on the special page. 2. Special:PagePreparation does not give an error message when the pagename entered is for a non-existing page. 3. When a page is reverted to its pre-preparation state, the page still shows in Special:Translate or special:LanguageStats... the point being that there seems no way to "back out" a page from translation process once it has entered it. 4. A new section in the sidebar would be nice concerned only with translation, eg it lists all the tools/special:pages available to the user for that page. In particular, it could show (a) options such as "Prepare", "Nuke translations" and so on (b) current status of the translation process for the page, eg Prepared for translation, Marked for translation, Partially translated, Fully translated, and Outdated translation. It would be nice to have a switch in LocalSettings to display such toolbar. Currently, naive users are confused who want to go from page->translation process; the current design is always to go translate->page. That's why I think a Translation section in the sidebar of translateable pages (not special pages) would be very useful for the whole community.
Thanks for the report, let's try to break it down in separate reports so that it gets actionable. (In reply to John McClure from comment #0) > 1. Special:PagePreparation does not prefill its pagename field when it's > been called as Special:PagePreparation/fullpagename or as > Special:PagePreparation?title=fullpagename. If it would be, then a button > can be added to the Toolbox to initiate the translation process. The current > process requires re-entry of the pagename on the special page. 19.00 < Nemo_bis> hypergrove: I asked it at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69273#c1 > > 2. Special:PagePreparation does not give an error message when the pagename > entered is for a non-existing page. Apparently not filed, only bug 69796. > > 3. When a page is reverted to its pre-preparation state, the page still > shows in Special:Translate or special:LanguageStats... the point being that > there seems no way to "back out" a page from translation process once it has > entered it. That's not about Special:PageMigration but it's covered in the last section of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#Life_of_a_translatable_page A patch is pending: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/161931/4 > > 4. A new section in the sidebar would be nice concerned only with > translation, eg it lists all the tools/special:pages available to the user > for that page. In particular, it could show (a) options such as "Prepare", > "Nuke translations" and so on That's really too much stuff for the sidebar, not going to be piled there (bug 43170). > (b) current status of the translation process > for the page, eg Prepared for translation, Marked for translation, Partially > translated, Fully translated, and Outdated translation. This is already in the header, you may have forgotten some step of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example > It would be nice to > have a switch in LocalSettings to display such toolbar. Currently, naive > users are confused who want to go from page->translation process; the > current design is always to go translate->page. I don't understand what this means. > That's why I think a > Translation section in the sidebar of translateable pages (not special > pages) would be very useful for the whole community.
