From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 10 11:31:24 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17zi5h-0001dA-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:31:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:31:21 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Final Translation Wiki Idea: PLEASE READ. Message-ID: <20021010183121.GG1332@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20021009175951.GP4649@digitalkingdom.org> <20021009175951.GP4649@digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20021009200615.0310a710@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021009200615.0310a710@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 2118 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:12:58PM -0400, 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). The big disadvantage there is that it's a *lot* harder to deal with programmatically. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ http://www.lojban.org/ la lojban. jai curmi roda .einai to ku'i so'ada mukti le nu co'a darlu le'o -- RLP I'm a *male* Robin.