Hi. First thank you for enabling id->min CT tool in beta wiki. Hopefully it could be deployed as scheduled. During testing, I encountered several problems.
I tried to translate a biography page from id to min
- source: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.X._Hadi_Rudyatmo
- result: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Bennylin/F.X._Hadi_Rudyatmo
The first thing is that the template from id was not supported when I translate using CT
{{lahirmati|[[Kota Surakarta|Surakarta]], [[Jawa Tengah]]|13|2|1960}} would display the text "lahir di Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, 13 Februari 1960; umur 55 tahun". Would it be possible for CT to behave differently, i.e. it tries to locate the local template with the same name, and use it accordingly, thus, I don't need to edit the text manually. Now I realize of course the template is not available in beta-wiki, but if it's deployed in min.wiki, it would: min:Templat:Lahirmati. So that would preserve the templating, and reduce the need for translating.
Second thing that I noted from my experience was that I couldn't even edit the text "lahir di Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, 13 Februari 1960; umur 55 tahun" into "lahia di Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, 13 Februari 1960; umur 55 taun" properly, or more precisely, easily. Notice that the difference between the two language is small in this text: "lahir" -> "lahia", "tahun" -> "taun". I tried to erase the "r" on "lahir", but I couldn't, instead I had to erase "lahir di" first, and then type "lahia di". Whatever the reason, it was not obvious. Next, I tried to erase the "h" in "tahun", but again, to no avail. I had to erase "umur 55 tahun" and re-type "umur 55 taun", which is silly. I hope it will be fixed soon to make the CT more editor-friendly.
Thanks.