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Spaces going missing

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When one copies and pastes within mediawiki with w:en:WP:WikEd on spaces go missing. Would be great to see this fixed. Spaces go missing when "[[" are flushed against the left side of the edit box. They also go missing when <ref> is flushed with the right side of the edit box. As part of the translation project am copy and pasting text for the translators and the WikEd colors are exceedingly important to help them work around the text. It only happens when WikEd is on. Firefox dose not cause the problem but I am also unable to get across the coloring of the markup.

Copy of text

Paste of text and the space goes missing

Doc James (talk ·contribs · email) 08:03, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

That is a weird problem, at first I couldn't reproduce it but my Chrome window was maximized. I could only reproduce with the window "floating". Then, if I drag the right edge of the entire Chrome frame one way or the other (which changes the size of the workspace and moves the "[[" off of the left window wall) the problem goes away. Good luck finding a real answer. Ian Furst (talk) 23:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes if it is off the left wall it does not happen. When moving entire pages of text though this is not really a solution. I have asked the WikEd person if they can build a solution :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

This is actually an already known bug in Chrome, please see Chrome bug 318925. It is not specific to wikEd, it also affects CodeEditor and VisualEditor. Please feel free to comment on their bug tracker or "star" that bug. Cacycle (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Development of Wikisource as a translation hub.

In medicine there are many translation efforts, most notably the Translation Task Force. However, the infrastructure there is ad hoc and not really designed to support a major translation effort.

I think there should be a unified place to support and direct translation efforts of all kind. Medicine should be the flagship project, but some other people may want to translate other things. If I were to propose the central forum for translation, probably I would propose Wikisource.

At Grants:IEG/Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision/Profile some people are currently working on planning for the future and development of Wikisource. I think that Wikisource will naturally want to set translation policies for who can translate historical documents, which versions are shared if the community does original translations, and how version control and annotation is managed. If this community were to make a proposal there to connect to a Wikisource translation infrastructure, then that could greatly expand the base of people who do translation and also increase the amount of support in translation that all people get.

I would like to see a lot more support for translators, and I think that to do this some people who are familiar with the Mediawiki backend should have some input into how the future of translation across all Wikimedia projects will appear. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:50, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Do you want exact translations? Mediawiki has translation software that's used for the software's help pages and such. I believe that Meta has it for the CentralNotice announcements.

If you don't necessarily want exact translations, then you might prefer an easier way to have cross-wiki discussions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Translators Without Borders gives free translation tools from what I understand to their volunteers. Doc James (talk · contribs ·email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

• We now have content translation which I think solves this issue Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:54, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Other proposals

• A way to search Wikidata for duplicate entries that match on two criteria (eg ICD-9 AND ICD-10 matches), as the current method of searching allows just one metric and results are not very specific (ie. there are many false positives).LT90001 (talk) 10:23, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• @LT910001: is this still needed? If yes, you may ask at the w:d:Wikidata:Project chat. --Edgars2007 (talk) 12:07, 2 November 2015 (UTC)