History: Alain's test and feedback, 2008-02-05

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I tried to eat our own dogfood this AM. Below is an account of what I found.

What I tried to do was to create a translation of my page ((Alain Désilets)) on the site, into French and Spanish

!Issue #1

The page ((Alain Désilets)) did not have a language assigned to it at the start.

I clicked on Translate button, and saw a pick list of languages. I selected French, thinking that this would specify the language of the translation.

Unfortunately, this was a case where the source page did not have a language associated with it, and this picklist was for specifying the language of the source page. So I ended up with a source page in French.

Now, as it turns out, there was a message above the language picklist that said:

   "No language is assigned to this page. Please select a language before performing translation."

But it was in a microscopic font. And since I was in a translation mode, as soon as I saw the language picklist, I assumed it was for specifying the target language. In order to counter that assumption (which I think many users will have), we need to display a __much more prominent WARNING: style___ message.

Another thing that could be done to minimize occurences of these kinds of cases, would be to do a better job at guessing the language of a newly created page.

For example, if I just created the present page using a dangling link on page ((Cross Lingual Wiki Engine Project)), which is in English. In a case like that, I think it's safe to assume that the page is in English.

!Issue #2

OK, so I changed the language of the original page to English, then proceeded to translate it to French and Spanish.

Then I changed the French page and added original content to it.

Then I went back to the English page, and expected to see some sort of warning that the French page was more up to date.

At first, I didn't see anything related to translations.

Then L-P pointed out to me that there should be a Translation module in the upper left corner.

__This tells me that maybe the information about translations and out of dateness should be somehow more prominent, or maybe closer to the language picklist at the top right.__ But maybe this would be crowding the UI too much.

!Issue #3

Looking at the Page translation box, I noticed that it said that there was no page with more up to date content.

I asked L-P why, and he said it's because I didn't tell Mozilla nor Tiki site that I can read other languages.

So I went to my User Preferences page, in the Languages section.

I picked French as a language I can read. This added 'fr' to the list of languages. Then I clicked on Change Preferences button, and the picklist of languages turned blank. 

This was confusing to me. I thought there was a bug and it failed to register my prefernece. Eventually, I understood that the text field on the left is where the preferences are stored, and the picklist on the right is just a way to choose a language to add.

__Need to make that clearer.__ For example, the first item of the picklist, instead of being blank, should say something like "Pick a language to add". The text box should have a caption that says "Languages you can read". There should be a button that saiy "Add" beside the picklist.

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