User:Xavi

es Castellano es la lengua materna de este usuario

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

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

Location

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

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 }} }}	Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:12:35 +09:12