History: Evaluation of current TikiWiki multilingual support as of Jan 6 2008

Below is an evaluation of current multilingual support in TikiWiki, as of Jan 6, 2008, in terms of a number of user tasks

Task: Specify set of languages supported by the site

• I18n Setup screen
  • 'Language' caption should be 'Default language'
  • 'Best Language' should be 'Show pages in user's preferred language'
  • 'Reg users can change the language' should say 'Other supported languages'. Also, is the checbox needed at all? If the site supports multiple languages, don't you always want to allow users to specify language preferences?

Task: Write a page

Task: Specify language of a newly created page

Task: Edit page in a particular language

Task: Initial Translation of page into a given language

Task: Tie a newly created translation to the source language version

Task: Site visitor specifies his language preferences

Task: Site visitor is made aware that the site is multilingual

Task: Site visitor switches to another language version of a page