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bug report on wiki, about Chinese Characters
by Truth 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Truth <gubotruth(a)gmail.com> Date: Apr 20, 2006 1:12 AM Subject: bug report on wiki, about Chinese Characters To: opensuse-wiki(a)opensuse.org Related pages: http://en.opensuse.org/CN-* Those are pages containing Chinese Characters. It's actually some preliminary work for setting up a Chinese wiki, And unfortunately the bug makes that impossible so far. I'll use the page below to explain what the bug is like. http://en.opensuse.org/CN-Frequently_Asked_Questions It's Chinese translation for the English FAQ page. I finished the translation at 14:26, 12 February 2006, after a couple of times' edit. The page history is here: http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=CN-Frequently_Asked_Questions&action… I was using the browser Opera, whose default encoding code is UTF-8, editing and posting. It seemed perfect when I just finished. And I did visit the page a week later, it was still fine(both in Opera/firefox). However, someday in March I went back again and found it all messed up. Some characters ( not all) can not ne recognized, and seems replaced by "�?�" or "�?".(in Opera/firefox/IE) According to the page history, nobody has touched it. The same issue happens to all Chinese pages on the wiki, such as. http://en.opensuse.org/CN-Communicate http://en.opensuse.org/CN-SDB:SDB .............. all full of "�?�"s. I'm not quite sure if the problem is related to encoding or fonts. As I saw similar messed-up Chinese pages on the wiki when I first came here, I suppose it an existing bug. Maybe it's related to storing chars? Quite STRANGE. Any insights? I'm willing to do anything like debug if needed. Best wishes.

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New Trasnlation
by Orn E. Hansen 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I started and added a new translation, Icelandic (my native tongue), and finished the "minimum" translation of documents as is shown in the Translation Team page. There are a few words on the Wiki document, that I'm not quite satisfied with. Sentences like "Hvað tengist hingað" under Tools, and "Innhlaða". The first isn't wrong semantically, but appears to be contextually wrong, it appears to be an automatic translation. The link itself suggest "Collection of links that are on the page", but the translation says "What pages do link to this page". On the wiki it says "what links here". The second translation I see is "Innhlaða" ... it's a no no word. Like the word "háhraði", another no no translation I've come across recently. The first literally means "inloading". Second would be like saying "I was driving at 50 KiloGrams an hour". I'm having someone second read my translations.

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search box results
by jdd 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I don't know if this is an opensuse problem of a mediawiki one - I know the search box is often questioned - I myself openned a bug on this recently before seeing that the problem is worst than I knowed problem is: when typing a word and hitting search, an exact word match in the title must be found to have a return (task don't gives the page "tasks") worst, only the first occurence is given ("bugs" gives only one page) compared to that the google search "site:opensuse.org bugs" gives all the answers, in all langages. so Google is far better than opensuse own search box. this is a problem in itself :-) and even more because it's not possible to insert a google search box in the wiki, so one need to type "site:opensuse" each time what is quite boring :-) is there a solution? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Translation German
by Andreas 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi everyone, following the links about localisation of opensuse.org, I wanted to add my name to the translation team page, found the page but have no clue where to add myself. However, I'd like to help translating OpenSUSE to German. Anyone know how, where, what, etc? Thanks Andreas

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merging lists
by jdd 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

could somebody add a link to the lists.suse.com on the lists.opensuse.org page? it should be a small step to the merging of the two communities :-) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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site map
by Lyle Greg Lisle 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

A site map would be real nice, but unless it could be generated automagically, it would take way too much time to keep up with changes. My guess is we need to work with the category structure. In particular, we need to make it hierarchical. Keep the number of top categories below 20. That would make finding things a lot easier. In addition, it would be nice if descriptions could be placed on the 'special' pages, including 'categories'. --- L Greg Lisle

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automatic login
by jdd 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

login on the wiki is still the primary brake against users. I don't really understand how it works. of course I must login once :-) after that I need to be active not to be unlogged. But the non-activity time is short. sometimes so short I haven't time to end the page I write. and the login question happen to make me lose a page after a quite long time (an hour or so, if I try to connect, I'm connected without passwd. How many times exactly? Would it be possible to use cookies to make this automatic along 2/3 days? to be practical, Mozilla gives me a passwd menu, so login is easy, but have no spellchecker (at least no installed) and konqueror have a spellchecker, but asks me to type the pass each time. if not too rough for secirity reason, automatic login should be quite a good thing. (it's the case on the french Alionet forum, I have never to type a passwd) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Category page problem
by Lyle Greg Lisle 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Being a wiki newbie, I don't know the cause, but the category pages don't display properly on my browser. (Mozilla) The listing of sub-categories and articles in the category doesn't start until after the left hand menu box. This leaves LOTS of white space and the impression that there is so list. I've also checked IE and Opera, and they have issues as well. What browser is everyone else here using? Or maybe it's because I'm running under Win98. -- Lyle Greg Lisle

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Media Layout
by houghi 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On http://en.opensuse.org/Media_layout there is some incosistand information, I think. e.g. the 10.0 version tells me that I can download a DVD5 src CD and also both an OSS and a non OSS version of e.g. x86 and x86_64. So where can I download the src DVD5? And what is the difference between the DVD5 x86 OSS and the DVD5 x86 non-OSS? Now it looks a bit confusing. And what was the X(no) picture again again? houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Errors in the wiki when language is portuguese
by Hugo Costelha 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, I have seen a couple of errors in the wiki when I am using portuguese as the display language. I am not talking about the portuguese translation, but the wiki itself. is it possible for me to correct those errors, or should I send them here? Hugo

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