User:Xavi

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Olpcboxes

Languages

es Castellano es la lengua materna de este usuario en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

Volunteer in

Translators: (en) → (es) English → español. Translators: (es) → (en) español → English.

Other

@ Mail me... (wiki mail) IRC Nick: Xavi #olpc-content #olpc-es This user's time zone is UTC-3.

Translating

Full Name

Xavier Alvarez

Background

Originally IT background (mainly OOP and Smalltalk) but currently into logistics.

Main focus

OLPC Argentina,
OLPC Spanish America,
Translating

Other areas

Category:Translated Pages in Category:Spanish.
Organize the Special:Categories
Wiki Page Restructuring Common Room

Keeping track of

Category:Uncategorized OLPC Media
Special:Uncategorizedpages
Translating/Suggestions

OLPC objectives

Would like to collaborate and participate more on the deployment plans & logistics.
Although I have been granted sysadmin rights on this site, I have no affiliation to the OLPC or any of their partners.

Personal Area

/WikiSamples, /Test, /Tester, /Portal, /Spanish Playground

Location

Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Happened to live 2+ years in: Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, San Salvador, La Paz, Nantes, and Lausanne.

XO

Since 2007-07-17T16:05UTC-3 olpc (B4-11) SHF725006C0

Wanted Pages

Here's a list of the (Top-20) 'most wanted' pages:

XO Korea/business content‏‎ (332 links), Template:Developers/‏‎ (88 links), Invalid title in result set: String, XO Korea/XO Service‏‎ (36 links), Projects/none‏‎ (34 links), XO Korea/xo service national‏‎ (34 links), OLPC Afrique‏‎ (29 links), PO-laptop.org-top-level-fi‏‎ (28 links), Invalid title in result set: Allows_value, PO-laptop.org-fr‏‎ (21 links), PO-laptop.org-hr‏‎ (21 links), PO-laptop.org-si‏‎ (21 links), Invalid title in result set: Page, XO Korea/government server/No.11 General‏‎ (19 links), XO Korea/extra expenses‏‎ (18 links), XO Korea/extra expenses/mesh phone‏‎ (18 links), Template:Information‏‎ (18 links), Developers program/lang-zh-TW‏‎ (12 links), Visione educativa‏‎ (12 links) and XO Korea/educational content‏‎ (12 links)

To Do List

Date	Action	Object	Notes
2007-07-01	FIX	Portal:Education	Something is wrong... tidyhtml? variables? typos? must check Talk:Portal:Education
2007-06-19	ADD	Translating#Resources	search tutorials, guides, etc. for gettext
2007-06-19	WRITE	HIG-style guide to translating
2007-06-17	Fix	Help:Editing	The HMTL code is messed up...
2007-05-11	review	replace resumir in HIG	find a valid word: "retomar", "reanudar", "proseguir", "volver" o "retornar"?
2007-04-27	Move	Un portátil por niño	to Una laptop por chico as commented in Talk:Un portátil por niño#Consistencia en la semántica (Done: 2007-05-02)
2007-04-13	Review	Template:/translations	it should either be deleted or contain 'template' stuff (Done: 2007-04-13 & 2007-04-14)
2007-01-27	Restructure	Sugar	Current page is quite lame, and not a very good first impression for somebody trying to 'discover' about such a novel interface for kids! When in better shape, it should be linked from either Home, Table of Contents and possibly other 'entry points'
2007-01-22	Undo?	id 22116 changes in Video of the OLPC	revert layout changes to non-glossary-style (pending confirmation)
2007-01-10	Move	Ask OLPC a Question/New#Gambia	to Ask OLPC a Question about Countries (Done: 2007-01-18)
	Merge	Fund raising idea	into ???
2007-01-11	Zap?	page User:Vialogicinc	corporate Ad space (Done by Sj 2007-03-18)

Some (lost, personal) notes on distribution

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Categorization Notes

Although this page is in my 'private' space, if anybody lands here and has something to say, please feel free to do so!

Pages where Special:Categories and structure of the OLPCWiki: structure is being discussed/referenced:

Rank	Page	Notes
dead	Page Categories	has been tagged for Category:Pages for deletion...
high	Talk:Page Categories	nice small top level hierarchy proposal
medium	User talk:Sj#Hey	interesting idea about 'parceling' pages... would that be 'sub-pages'? is it doable?
low	OLPCWiki:Community Portal & #To Do List	Requesting work to be done on the subject...
high	OLPCWiki talk:Community Portal	Plenty of feedback and ideas
high	User talk:Aburton	The section on < includeonly > considered harmless is food for thought
medium	Talk:Sharing your content with OLPC#Language vs Language	Hints to an interesting issue when i18n efforts will take off: source language vs target language
medium	Talk:Hyperlinked hub	Proposed subject categorization (for content)
medium	User talk:Nitpicker#re: pre-literate	Categorization based on 'education level'
high	Educational content ideas/language learning#Strategies for Language learning	Citation and enumeration of strategies used for language learning... probably some material could be categorized based on those (or similar) axis
medium	Talk:OS images#Reorganizing "Build images" pages	Proposes some criteria for splitting up the page - maybe its ideas are reusable?
medium	Subjects	A categorization for content - how international or global is it really? Mainly western?
medium	OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Activities/Activity Bundles#Activity Tags	To top things off, as the project crystalizes, categories will have to deal with Activities
high	User:Sj/Log/Idea pooling	Summary of ideas among users on how to gear the pooling of ideas... maybe too complex? and a bit outside of my scope?
reference	Wiki	Sort of general depot for some issues related to the wiki
high	Talk:Educators#Improving site organization - Content contribution storyboarding?	Another take at the broad layout / categories for the site

Other things

User:Aburton was really active, particularly working on Special:Categories... but hasn't been around since 2006-08-21 15:39:34... any ideas why?

Wishlist & Tests

Would be cool to have Interwiki linking. I've been trying several things, but can't get it to work.

Apparently, this would be a link to wikipedia's article on Argentina, but no. I've tried Argentina, Wikipedia:Argentina, Argentina, this and others, but to no avail... I think that there's quite a bit of functionality in this wiki that hasn't been activated... #if: doesn't work either...

Another option is that I can't make it work! ;)

For reference, here the WikiMedia's current interwiki map and sample map

Editing a wiki is a fairly simple thing to do; but to do it right, a bit of documentation is required:

• Wikipedia's Help and Contents editing on Magic words and Diff
• Parser Functions
• MediaWiki and its Manual Contents and Extensions

Text

See WikiMedia Help:Wikitext

Effect	Result	Typed
italics	some italic text	some ''italic'' text
bold	some bold text	some '''bold''' text
bold italics	some bold & italic text	some '''''bold & italic''''' text
color	some colored text	some <font color="red">colored</font> text
big	some big text	some <big="red">big</big> text
small	some small text	some <font size="-1">small</font> text
another small	some small text	some <sub>small</sub> text

Tables

See WikiMedia Help:Table

An example table

First header	Second header
upper left		right side
lower left	lower middle
A table in a table Two XO logos

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="float:right"
|+'''An [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table example table]'''
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" | First header
! colspan="2" style="background:#ffdead;" | Second header
|-
| upper left
|  
| rowspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" valign="top" | right side
|-
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | lower left
| style="border-bottom:3px solid grey;" | lower middle
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" |
{| border="0"
|+''A table in a table''
|-
| align="center" width="150px" | [[Image:Pic Xo.jpg|100px]]
| align="center" width="150px" | [[Image:Pic Xo.jpg]]
|-
| align="center" colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid red; border-right:1px solid red; border-bottom:2px solid red; border-left:1px solid red;" | Two XO logos
|}
|}

DIVs

See WikiMedia Help:HTML in wikitext

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<div style="margin:2px; border:1px solid orange; background:lightgray; padding:5px; font-size:66%; width:90%; margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto; text-align:center; " >
Some text should figure here....</div>

Some text should figure here....

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<div style="margin:5px; border:7px solid orange; background:#fda; padding:11px; font-size:133%; width:60%; margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto; " >
Some other text is here...
</div>

Some other text is here...

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Parser functions & others

see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser_function

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions

wiki-text	result	note
{{ lc:AbCdEf }}	abcdef	gives abcdef.
{{ #language:da }}	dansk	gives Dansk
{{ #expr: (30 + 7) * 7 }}	259	= 259
{{ #ifeq: +07 | 007 | 1 | 0 }}	1	gives 1
{{ #ifeq: "+07" | "007" | 1 | 0 }}	0	gives 0
{{ #if: {{{parameter|}}} | Parameter is defined. | Parameter is undefined, or empty }}	Parameter is undefined, or empty
{{ #ifexist: Bugs|Foo|RFC 3092 }}	RFC 3092	gives RFC 3092, because Bugs doesn't exist
{{ #switch: A | a=lower | A=UPPER }}	UPPER	gives UPPER
{{ #time:D, j M Y H:i:s {{#time:+H:i|+0 hours }} }}	Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:13:54 +22:13