{"id":3562,"date":"2014-08-27T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:38:34","slug":"3-improvements-to-labourstart-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"3 improvements to LabourStart campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have complained that they were unable to fill in our campaigns on their mobile phones. \u00a0We were not able to reproduce the problem, but as it kept coming up, we have to assume that certain phones under certain circumstances will have an issue. \u00a0As a result, there&#8217;s now a fairly prominent link on the English campaigns to a page that according to 3 people who tested it, does work. \u00a0All the campaigns in other languages use that same page, so no one should have issues other than English speakers, and it was fewer than 10 people reporting the problem.<\/p>\n<p>A comrade at a British trade union pointed out that you can no longer see how many supporters we had for a campaign that&#8217;s been closed. \u00a0This has now been fixed &#8212; see, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=2394\">our recent Gaza campaign<\/a>. \u00a0If there&#8217;s no campaign total, there&#8217;s a link to click on to generate one, as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve long wanted to create a proper system for our volunteer translators to submit their campaign translations. \u00a0Some of them &#8212; a minority &#8212; go directly into our system and add campaigns. \u00a0But most still send on campaigns by email, often as attached Word documents. \u00a0Some of the translators continue to translate too much &#8212; including bits of the interface that are already translated. \u00a0Some try to embed photos or change fonts, when this is already part of the built-in interface. \u00a0It&#8217;s not clear to some of the translators what&#8217;s optional (e.g., the default message to the target). \u00a0And sometimes the translations come through and it&#8217;s not clear to me what&#8217;s what (especially in non-Latin character sets). \u00a0That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/translate.cgi?c=2452\">this<\/a>. \u00a0(Feel free to have a look, but do NOT submit a translation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have complained that they were unable to fill in our campaigns on their mobile phones. \u00a0We were not able to reproduce the problem, but as it kept coming up, we have to assume that certain phones under certain circumstances will have an issue. \u00a0As a result, there&#8217;s now a fairly prominent link on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}