Extension:Translate/Mass migration tools/Project updates

Project title: Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content

Pre-Community Bonding Period

 * Read the existing documentation related to Translate extension


 * Prepared pages for translation and imported them manually
 * Went through the coding conventions for the language selected - JavaScript
 * Set up the coding environment - editor, gerrit ssh keys, etc. Ready to submit patches

Goals for first half
As mentioned in the project schedule, the first half of the project aims to accomplish the following goals -
 * Coding of the confirmation and publishing screens related to Step 2 (importing translations), with basic initial import of old text is to be done by May 28
 * Once the initial import is done, enhancement bugs would be filed and fixed in the next few days until June 7
 * Desiging and coding of the algorithm for step 1 (preparing page for translation) would be done by June 23

Communication plan

 * IRC has been used so far for daily communication and mails when the mentors were not available
 * It has been decided to have daily meetings except on Sunday's at #mediawiki-i18n from 13.45 UTC to 14.00 UTC

Lessons learnt

 * Not to get stuck on a particular task and keep things simple for the first version
 * Strict use of Gerrit for code review
 * Second part of the project is more important and shall be done first

April 22 to May 5

 * Documented the requirements for the project
 * Designed an algorithm for aligning the translations
 * Wrote a script to fetch the source translations and align the section headers

May 6 to May 18

 * As per the meetings held, it has been decided that step 2 be done before step 1
 * The second step would be seen as a special page - Special:PageMigration. A skeleton of the same was set up on local wiki
 * Submitted patch sets for the first version of the special page. As of now, it -
 * 1) Fetches and displays the translation units created by Translate for the given page
 * 2) Imports the old translations for given language on paragraph level and displays them
 * 3) Feature can be now conditionally enabled by setting $wgTranslatePageMigration to true
 * Screenshot showing the same

Week 1: May 19 to May 25

 * Added features to edit, delete and swap the imported translations - Patch
 * i18n of messages used so far - Patch

Week 2: May 26 to June 2

 * Added feature for manual splitting of units by giving an option to add an empty unit after the current one - Patch
 * Created an instance on wmflabs and the tool can now be tested here.
 * Restricted access to the Special page to translation admins only on Wikimedia wikis - Patch
 * Fixed the IDs and class names adapting the BEM approach and revamped the interface using the MediaWiki grid layout - Patch

Week 3: June 3 to June 9

 * Wrote QUnit tests for the various API calls involved - Patch
 * Handled possible error cases like non-existence of a page, absence of old translations, etc - Patch
 * Added hover text for image icons to convey their meaning - Patch
 * Fixed the overall code architecture - Patch
 * Wrote a module for simplistic alignment based on h2 headers - Patch

Week 4: June 10 to June 16

 * Handled whitespace in input at Special:PageMigration by trimming them - Patch
 * Started with Step 1 of the project - preparing the page for translation
 * Wrote a script under Translate itself which does the basic work of preparing the page for translation. It includes adding &lt;translate> tags at the start and end of the page, adding newlines before and after section headers, handling of files, internal links as per the markup examples and saving of the page with the modified text - Patch
 * Handled internal links to sections on same page by linking them to language-independent anchor - Patch

Week 5: June 17 to June 23

 * Handled templates by keeping them as a part of the page template - Patch
 * Continued to work on the internal links to sections on same page patch

Week 6: June 24 to June 30

 * New icon images were introduced at Special:PageMigration - Patch
 * A new special page Special:PagePreparation was introduced which serves as the confirmation screen for step 1 - Patch

Week 7: July 1 to July 7
No work done due to relocation to Hyderabad

Week 8: July 8 to July 14

 * Continued to work on Special:PagePreparation. Added feature to show diff and save the page on user confirmation