Re: [OSCOM] Multilingual Wiki: keeping versions in sync

Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Marc Laporte wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Can someone point me to an existing implementation of a multilingual
>>> wiki with a way to keep versions in sync?
>>>
>>> Version #6 in English is equivalent to version #18 in French. When a
>>> wiki page is edited, the other pages need to be updated. How do we
>>> handle this for translators and for visitors?
>>>
>>> http://dev.tikiwiki.org/MultilingualWikiSync
>>>
>>> What do other CMSs do?   Joomla, Drupal, Zope, etc, etc
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately Lenya doesn't support this ;-) and I would be positively
>> surprised if any other system would support it
>> resp. very interested myself which system can do this resp. how is  
>> being
>> handled
>>
>> I guess a "translation" would have to hold a reference to a master and
>> checking on that master and as your pointing out
>> the reference should contain the version as well.
>
>
> Yep, that's the way LinguaPlone does it.  The slides here:
>
>   http://plone.org/events/conferences/vienna-2004/handouts/ 
> LinguaPloneIntro.pdf/view
>
> ...do a good job (with screenshots) of explaining how it works, what  
> it does, etc.  But in essence, you go to a document and click on a  
> "translate into" menu with a listing of the configured languages.   
> This creates a new document that has a relation to the "canonical"  
> translation.


is there only one canonical (master)? Or can you derive french from 
english and german from french?


Thanks

Michi

>
> AFAIK, it works pretty well with workflow, search, versions, etc.   
> It's particularly interesting in custom content types.  You can  
> define a content type that has 3 fields that are translation- 
> independent and 2 fields that are translation-dependent.  When you  
> translate something, you get a split-screen view of canonical vs.  
> current.  Changes to the language-independent fields are propagated  
> to all translations.
>
> --Paul
>


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