Sheila Wilson wrote:
I'm all for the translation contest, but it seems to me that this part of the system has not been lovingly developed like most of ProZ - it seems to have got to the point of "well, that sort of works", then left.
If there's time and money in the budget before the next contest, perhaps this area could be tweaked a little. Suggestions and/or observed limitations:-
1. I received over 200 emails today - one for every tag comment! Fortunately, with Gmail they get bunched together so I didn't have to select each one for deletion. Not surprisingly, I didn't check each and every one, so if any are notifying me that my comment has been rejected, I'll never know. Please, please - just send rejections.
2. When you have original text and translation side-by-side, the tags cover the source and you can no longer see it - not very helpful at all.
3. Each time you select text for tagging, you have to then scroll to below the text to click on the agree/disagree icon. I don't know the technical limitations here, but that's a lot of scrolling.
4. Another scrolling limitation is that, once tagged, the text redisplays from the top. If you are tagging text near the bottom, again this is annoying - could it not return to the line tagged? BTW, I realise that this may not be a problem for all users (I have a rather small screen) but I doubt that I'm the only person affected.
5. When you enter a comment, a list comes up for you to choose already-entered text. "Great" I thought, until I discovered that these are KudoZ comments and my comments were not being carried from one entry to another. It's a frustrating timewaster to key in an identical remark 10-15 times, especially when it seems it ought to be easier.
6. It seems that you cannot normally edit your tag and/or comment - only delete it.
7. If you select an identical piece of text to an existing tagged piece, you will be informed. However, if the previous tag was the tiniest bit different (eg a comma included), it doesn't let you know until you've entered it, so you then have to delete yours and agree with the existing entry. Could we be advised if there is any overlap at all? Perhaps by highlighting the already-tagged text as soon as the mouse is on it?
8. Sometimes, the system prevents you from selecting a piece of text. An example was the word "good" which I found wrongly used twice in one paragraph, for different reasons. I really wanted to tag both but was not allowed to.
9. Personal notes can be added, but these cannot be made visible. IMO, these could be useful to the translator, as more general feedback eg style, register, terminology of the whole text.
10. As suggested elsewhere in the forum, although we obviously shouldn't vote for and tag our own submissions, it would be useful to be able to react to comments - one person has asked a specific question that I would like to address and can't.
11. How can I easily find my own submission? I'm obviously interested in the comments from others. Could we have a "My own submission" quick link, please?
I'm sure everyone agrees that that's quite enough for now! Sorry
And, please, don't get the impression that I'm really fed up - it's just that I was a systems analyst in a former life and I think this area needs some TLC.
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