From xod@thestonecutters.net Wed Oct 09 18:55:35 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17zSXo-0008I9-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:55:20 -0700 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9A1pIH26778 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:51:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:51:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Invent Yourself To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Final Translation Wiki Idea: PLEASE READ. In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021009200615.0310a710@pop.east.cox.net> Message-ID: <20021009215009.P26493-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2089 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 05:02 PM 10/9/02 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >But I still want to do a translation wiki thing for other translation > >projects; what exactly those will be, I dunno you, but there you have > >it. > > > >So, unless people tell me now, I'm going with the above. Probably with > >1 day lock on each section of the work in question. > > My only suggestion is that rather than working at "paragraph" or "chapter" > level that you chose an intermediate: blocks of text of "page" size, where > a page is no more than a chapter, no less than X lines, and starts and > stops on a paragraph boundary. X can be determined by looking at what is > typically a maximum workable wiki page size (no idea what that is), and > dividing by 4 (allowing for 1 line of English to 1 line of Lojban to 1-2 > lines of comment). I suppose you could go backwards: decide the duration of locking you want, then figure a reasonable amount of text to translate during that duration, and use that as the granularity. -- Before Sept. 11 there was not the present excited talk about a strike on Iraq. There is no evidence of any connection between Iraq and that act of terrorism. Why would that event change the situation? -- Howard Zinn