[PD] About editing pdpedia

[PSPunch]

Hans,


Thanks.
I've followed the procedure in the English 'Admin howtos' pages.
I would appreciate it if you could try executing the import.

Thanks.

--
David Shimamoto



Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote
> 
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 2:20 AM, PSPunch wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have some questions for some of you working on pdpedia.
>>
>>
>> =======
>> 1.
>> Has there already been discussions on policies regarding when/which
>> pages to lock?
>> I am assuming that leaving everything unlocked is the way to go if only
>> the world were an ideal place. Are there not yet MediaWiki spammers?
> 
> Locking pages is basically for when people are fighting over a page.  I 
> can't imagine that anything is so divisive in Pd that we'd need to lock 
> pages.  So far, we haven't had any spam yet.
> 
>> =======
>> 2.
>> Regarding importing data from other languages..
>> For some basic pages, I have gotten away with the following procedure.
>>
>> I. Open the pdpedia page in English.
>> II. Enter "edit" mode and [copy] the contents in the form
>> III. Create an equivalent page in my language and [paste] the material
>> above.
>> IV. Use above as a starting point to begin translation.
>>
>> -- 
>> The above does not work for pages such as 'Category:vanilla'.
>> I don't quite understand how that content is embedded in the page.
>> Can some one help me on importing the list of objects?
>>
>> I've noticed that people working on the Spanish and Portuguese pages
>> have been successful in this.
> 
> Once that translated template that you posted is ready to go, then I'll 
> run the import.  That will generate template pages for about 2000 
> objectclasses.  Then it's a matter of plugging in content, which can be 
> gathered from pages in other languages, help patches, etc.
> 
> .hc
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>> David Shimamoto
>>
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