Needs Improvement

How do I import languages to translate the base of drupal?

Go to http://drupal.org/project/translations and download them.

Untar (unzip) your language translations.

Then head on over to your Administer » Site Configuration » Localization page and click import (/en/admin/settings/locale/language/import)

You do not even have to enable the language first:

Apparently, i18n and locale have no way of translating user-entered values for site slogan, site name, and mission statement!

Resolution

All text such as mission and slogan and title should go in themes with a t() function so they can be translated.

This is confirmed to work in Drupal 5. Anything you throw into a <?php print t('Translate this.'); ?> will show up in the Localization manage strings administration, admin/settings/locale/string/search

This inquiry was passed to Agaric by colleagues with a client seeking open source solutions. (Same request that had good extra questions answered here.) Below, in the resolution, is our quick cost estimate.

Summary: seeks a website design firm to develop, maintain, and
host its new website. The attached site map outlines the four areas of this
new website: About, Toolbox, Members section, and Groups section.

The Freelinking module, bless its heart, is a tad too overzealous in its attempt to linkify any words it thinks are in CamelCase.

Furthermore, it interferes with links with capitalization in them, even when the linking is applied first. Agaric considers this a bug.

Ideally one could turn freelinking off for most content types, except say your Wiki content type.

The way freelinks work may be tied too closely to Drupal's input filter functionality, though, and not easy to disable per node type.

Whatever the reason, you can't.

When someone edits the wiki, there is no trace of it having been edited - in other words, if I post a page, and you come along and delete what I've written and write some crazy manifesto, your manifesto is attributed to me. Is there any way to highlight or otherwise distinguish content submitted by different users? Or to make "changes" visible, with the proper attribution to each successive author?

Philosophically, wiki pages shouldn't show a single author anyway. So we'll disable showing the creator for that content type.

Note: I think NancyW has a post on Drupal.org about how to do this also, but I can't find it right now.

If it weren't for the promise of autopilot coming out and helping with all this, I would be trying to figure out how to grep settings.php to find the real $db_url = line (which follows, rather than being in, /* */ C-style comments).

Problem: how do we automatically rename all database table prefixes and the field prefixes within the sequences table?

Dan had autosave enabled and yet after a Firefox crash on Windows Vista (Bad Dan! Bad Vista!) so I naturally checked to see if anyone else thought autosave might actually be able to cause or trigger browser crashing. Search came up clean.

Resolution

Probably not: there are no other reports of autosave possibly contributing to a crash, so autosave is probably innocent.

But if you're searching the Internet for this problem, and find this post, let Agaric know! That's evidence, Watson.

What are action groups / activity spaces

Pierre George 5:41 PM
i would not favor giving "genetic"rights
5:41 PM
firs come occupies the place
5:41 PM
i was thinking of a system of extending equal rights
Benjamin Melançon 5:42 PM
That's another question-- I would prefer everyone in a group to have rights to editing actions proposed by that group.
Pierre George 5:42 PM
but i understand there are no groups in that site ....
Benjamin Melançon 5:42 PM

What should users of WSF2008 be able to do to list themselves and their event on a map? What can be pre-filled? Do we want people to type in countries? Province-level geopolitical entities? Villages? What can the Google Maps API take, and from where? How can we try to ensure it fails gracefully, and falls back to the closest approximation of the location it can find.

Right now the plan is to do what location module lets us, but I don't know if this has been tested worldwide.

From a Skype conversation:

we are in a site where organisation is not an entity so organisations only exist as list of people profile , declared independently by each person
Benjamin Melançon 5:16 PM
Exactly.
5:16 PM
It would be a click or two away of course, but not displayed there.
Pierre George 5:16 PM
there is a need i think to give directory service to the users
5:17 PM
who are the people form my organisation, form my network form my city ... you can find a start of this in wsf2008.net
Benjamin Melançon 5:17 PM