Hi All, Despite the fact that I aware that the Drupal.org site is undergoing a lot of correction, organization work I want to propose an Idea for making the work of "No English Native" Documentation Team and provide some utilities.

For the Documentation team links:

1. Try to group following Pages in one Section:

A) T. Glossary
B) Terminology
C) sample glossary page for newcomers

2. Create a link in the "Documentation team links" like "vocabulary" or whatever might be appropriate to
describe the content of this Section.

Advantages:

1. All drupal.org members and visitors may very easy reach a source where to clear and define Drupal Nomenklatures and for "No english native" to find the meaning of some default american and or english
common used espression and acronyms to understand better the aswers they get in Posting and Issues.

2. This will surely increase interest in Drupal and the growing of the Drupal learning curve (I hope I understand and use this statement here in the right meaning!)

Please provide your opinion and support to this. Thanks in advance

Cheers
-wolfflow

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Wolfflow commented

Just one more thing: I was motivated to make this issue when I was reading
--> How to enact change within the Drupal community

and did not know what "mock-up" did mean, and of course as a no english native thouth that this is a kind of Drupal procedure or what ever.

3. Propose

.... In as much detail as possible, outline the steps to fix the problem. Do a mock-up of what you think the solution would look like ...

So again I try to find this on Drupal.org but finally I got it !
again google define search: mock-up

result:

1. The act of creating a mental picture, which, though technically imaginary, is also "a self-created object which exists as itself or symbolizes some object in the MEST universe. It is a thing which one can be.

2. A model, either full size or to scale, of a construction system or assembly used to analyze construction details, strength, and appearance. ...

3. In common usage, a mock-up is a scale model of a structure or device, usually used for teaching, demonstration, testing a design, etc.

There are many others, and I'm not sure what is the right one :-(

So this is my motivation to do a "Common used english expression page on Drupal.org" so that Documentation Team may add the right definition to some common used expression that are only familiar to americans or english Authors!

I hope you support my Idea when this may be possible to implement on Drupal.org

Thanks

Edit: If my proposal is valued as wished and some agree I will take care of it and assign this Issue to me and start
with a Summary-Page first on my Site then let it check by the Documentation Team & Webmaster Team for
deciding where should be placed in the Drupal.org Handbook .

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nielsbom commented
Title: Proposal for Links for Documentation Team » Suggestion to make glossary more informative for non-English speakers
Component: User Guide » Other documentation issues

Changed the title.

Changed the component to reflect the new component categorization. See http://drupal.org/node/301443
-nielsbom

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Wolfflow commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

Please provide feedback on that, lets take a decision or make a site wide Pool about!

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betz commented
Project: Documentation » Drupal core
Version: » 7.x-dev
Component: Other documentation issues » documentation
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zirvap commented
Project: Drupal core » Documentation
Version: 7.x-dev »
Component: documentation » Other documentation issues
Priority: Critical » Normal

Did you mean to change this issue to Drupal, betz? It's quite obviously a doc issue, to me.

"Common used english expression page on Drupal.org"

I think this is a good idea, wolfflow. I think http://drupal.org/node/937 should be the main terminlogy page, and the new page could be a subpage under that.

There are several more things that can be done with the current terminology page:

  • Make the terminology page easier to find: Create an alias -- drupal.org/terminology (that's a webmaster issue)
  • Make the terminology page easier to find: A link from http://drupal.org/handbooks, for instance change "New to Drupal? Start here to learn about the project, features, requirements, best practices and and how to get Drupal core installed. "New to Drupal? Start here to learn about the project, features, requirements, best practices and and how to get Drupal core installed. " to "New to Drupal? Start here to learn about the project, features, requirements, terminology, best practices and and how to get Drupal core installed."
  • Link from http://drupal.org/node/937 to other terminology pages
  • Review the current text, see if there's anything that can and should be written in a simpler language, to make it easier to understand for non-English users
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Wolfflow commented

Hi zirvap, agree fully that Terminology page should be the main one.
I started to work on them and I have the same Idea as you, to do subpages to a "Common used english expression page on Drupal.org" page. That is a very good Title. +1 for me.

I will procede first with building the subpages. For your others suggestion I would wait till "Documentation Team" provide their hints, suggestions and approvements. Thanks!

@To All
reading this post, please provide me with Feedback and I will try to do the JOB done!

Cheers

Edit: I have started a page HERE feel free to modify, and add terms!

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Wolfflow commented

@zirvap About:

Make the terminology page easier to find: ...

I'm sorry but I would do that immediately but I have no webmaster access rights and cannot move content.

I found early or better say months ago many members that was asking for that and did my homework but with no success:
see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12533
and: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12466
and: http://drupal.org/node/289235
and: http://drupal.org/node/257819
and: http://drupal.org/node/268264

I started about June 9, 2008 and knoe it looks that nobody has to complain that a page is done, but a link to it in the Menubar would be really fundamental as we have a lot a lot a lot a lot of NENs on Drupal.org !!!

Cheers

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Wolfflow commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Wolfflow
Status: Active » Fixed

Have close this issue because I consider that with the creation of a new subpage to the existent Terminology page this request/support is accomplished. Despite the fact the I/anyone can open a new issue for requesting a "Menubar" button/link may be necessary for discussion and further development of giving Visitors a faster addressing to clear unclear/new terminology, I have set this to close/fixed.

Feel free to reopen if needed.

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Wolfflow commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
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Wolfflow commented

FYI:

I have resign from the doc team as a site maintainer, as to not create more conflict inside the drupal.org teams. I have started a site about Association Developing Advanced Code_of_Conduct for Community Site with the intent to find good compromises for a better approach plan for all interested in improving quality of Online Community and Management.

Kind Regards