728417 - Enable / implement page translation features

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P2)

Description

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Kuma inherits page translation machinery from Kitsune. This stuff seems not accessible from the site now, and probably needs updating to work with the new URL structure from bug 717445.

So, check out what translation features exist in the code, make sure they work, and make sure they're exposed in the wiki editing UI

Comment 1

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

A potential wrinkle I can see between Mindtouch and Kuma:

* Kuma inherits code from Kitsune that can track the parent-child relationship of an original document (eg. en-US/DOM/Storage) to translated document (eg. ja/DOM/Storage). This can power some features to switch locales for the current page.

* MindTouch does not track any relationships between translated pages. Instead, it looks like authors manually follow a convention of calling the `wiki.languages` template at the end of a page to list all the alternates to the current page by locale.

Maybe we can use the template calls from MindTouch pages for now, and enable the Kuma relationships as a feature going forward? 

Might need to add a feature to set the translation relationship between pages, which right now looks like it can only happen when you first create a new page based off of an existing one.

Comment 2

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Bumping for planning and estimating

Comment 3

[ali spivak]

1. Need to add "translate this page" link to the pages, which goes to the list of languages you can translate into (or selector of languages you can choose)

2. Fix some links

Ask Jean-Yves his preference.

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/44b247e84c61b82ff3621635d2934e6c4975670b
Bug 728417 use Document.other_translations for Languages menu

fix wiki.select_locale and wiki.translate links

restore and fix translate template tests

remove is_localizable from form to fix translating new docs

fix add translation link for non-en-US docs

fix unreviewed English warning message

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/dec001bf7ec1eb8280af018e6f85c70842253b73
Merge pull request #215 from groovecoder/page-translation-features-bug-728417

Page translation features bug 728417

Comment 5

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

fixed on stage9