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]]> By: Qadeer Ahmad Rana http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Qadeer Ahmad Rana Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-191 On internet, I spend my time in stupid things. So if you invite me for the maintenance of the site then my time will be spending on better things. As I think myself indulged in this work so I think it better to say WE. Surely the need of Urdu forum is there. I am thinking about the Categaries and forums names. I will put questions about this on my blog. As we are planning a website for all the people, so all the stuff should be there. The translation and other things should be put there. And I think that META refresh tag is better but it should contain longer time, the link should be put on the page and the page should refresh after at least 10 seconds. Putting the link is necessary because often browsers don't refresh the page automatically. And also, sending emails to the people is a good idea. I am also thinking of the design of the page. I suggest a three coloumn page, the right and left coloumns will be updated daily and the central coloumn would be static. There will be news, joke and some other fresh things in the right and left coloumns and the central coloumn will contain the main articles and other things. Also, what about the TechNews in Urdu. As G3TechNews is providing news in English, we should give Urdu News regarding Technology. We should also provide the Urdu Adab there. Jokes, Short Story, Books Reviews, TechTutorials, Poetry and other things. On internet, I spend my time in stupid things. So if you invite me for the maintenance of the site then my time will be spending on better things. As I think myself indulged in this work so I think it better to say WE. Surely the need of Urdu forum is there. I am thinking about the Categaries and forums names. I will put questions about this on my blog. As we are planning a website for all the people, so all the stuff should be there. The translation and other things should be put there. And I think that META refresh tag is better but it should contain longer time, the link should be put on the page and the page should refresh after at least 10 seconds. Putting the link is necessary because often browsers don’t refresh the page automatically. And also, sending emails to the people is a good idea.

I am also thinking of the design of the page. I suggest a three coloumn page, the right and left coloumns will be updated daily and the central coloumn would be static. There will be news, joke and some other fresh things in the right and left coloumns and the central coloumn will contain the main articles and other things. Also, what about the TechNews in Urdu. As G3TechNews is providing news in English, we should give Urdu News regarding Technology. We should also provide the Urdu Adab there. Jokes, Short Story, Books Reviews, TechTutorials, Poetry and other things.

]]> By: Steven Wittens http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Steven Wittens Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-192 On the language side of things, Drupal can handle Urdu fine. Bilingual sites are possible with the contributed i18n module. Drupal's interface can be translated with the built-in locale.module. There is no Urdu translation yet, but it is easy to do if you can get enough people together (we use gnu gettext-compatible .po files). On the language side of things, Drupal can handle Urdu fine. Bilingual sites are possible with the contributed i18n module. Drupal’s interface can be translated with the built-in locale.module. There is no Urdu translation yet, but it is easy to do if you can get enough people together (we use gnu gettext-compatible .po files).

]]> By: Nabeel http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Nabeel Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-193 Zack: I think we can use a suitable CMS for consolidating things likw Urdu Wiki, Urdu forum etc.in one place. Any decent CMS should offer this facility of content integration. We need at least a home page presented by the CMS iteself which in turn is generated using a template. Each CMS has its own system/syntax of describing templates. Each CMS also has a different learning curve depending upon the set of features that it offers and scripting languages that it uses. I suggest that we select a CMS which is based on php and MySQL, not that I am much of a php/MySQL guru. Far from it! The different CMSes that you mentioned in the post all use php and MySQL. I will try giving these a try myself over the weekend. I may write a post about this evaluation if I come up with some meaningful results. Investing time on a CMS is worth the effort, in my opinion. It would provide the flexibilty of adding and modifying sections at will. p[ur](urdu). قدیر۔ سوچ لو، سارا کام ہم پھر تم سے ہی کروائیں گے۔ Zack: I think we can use a suitable CMS for consolidating things likw Urdu Wiki, Urdu forum etc.in one place. Any decent CMS should offer this facility of content integration. We need at least a home page presented by the CMS iteself which in turn is generated using a template. Each CMS has its own system/syntax of describing templates. Each CMS also has a different learning curve depending upon the set of features that it offers and scripting languages that it uses. I suggest that we select a CMS which is based on php and MySQL, not that I am much of a php/MySQL guru. Far from it! The different CMSes that you mentioned in the post all use php and MySQL. I will try giving these a try myself over the weekend. I may write a post about this evaluation if I come up with some meaningful results. Investing time on a CMS is worth the effort, in my opinion. It would provide the flexibilty of adding and modifying sections at will.

قدیر۔ سوچ لو، سارا کام ہم پھر تم سے ہی کروائیں گے۔

]]> By: Qadeer Ahmad Rana http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Qadeer Ahmad Rana Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-194 نہ بھائی! میری بڑھکوں کی اتنی بڑی سزا تو نہ دیں ۔ وہ تو میں نے ایسے ہی بڑھک ماری تھی ۔ مجھے سے ڈیلیٹ کرنے کے سوا اور کوئی کام نہیں ہوتا ۔ اس لیے اگر آپ نے کوئی فائل یا فولڈر ڈیلیٹ کروانا ہو تو بتائیں ورنہ تخلیقی کام تو بہت مشکل ہے ۔۔۔ :) نہ بھائی! میری بڑھکوں کی اتنی بڑی سزا تو نہ دیں ۔ وہ تو میں نے ایسے ہی بڑھک ماری تھی ۔ مجھے سے ڈیلیٹ کرنے کے سوا اور کوئی کام نہیں ہوتا ۔ اس لیے اگر آپ نے کوئی فائل یا فولڈر ڈیلیٹ کروانا ہو تو بتائیں ورنہ تخلیقی کام تو بہت مشکل ہے ۔۔۔ :)

]]> By: Danial http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Danial Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-195 1.5 is better than 1.2 because we might need the pages feature. Even if we don't need pages then still 1.5 has other goodies too. About responsibility, I suggest that we choose Zack as team manager and then he would assign work to us all. Or we can distribute sections among us? Or we can just start doing it like contributing little here and little there each day? 1.5 is better than 1.2 because we might need the pages feature. Even if we don’t need pages then still 1.5 has other goodies too.

About responsibility, I suggest that we choose Zack as team manager and then he would assign work to us all. Or we can distribute sections among us? Or we can just start doing it like contributing little here and little there each day?

]]> By: زکریا http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-196 زکریا Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-196 Qadeer: Since the Urdu forum was your idea, I would suggest you manage that. That would include installing it, fixing any problems, updating it to latest versions including patching for security holes, moderating, selecting and adding forum topics etc. About the other ideas for content, I would say we should start with what we have right now and then add content over time. Steven: Thanks. We are more interested in having the site content be bilingual in Urdu and English than in having the Drupal interface in Urdu. I hope that would be easy to accomplish. Nabeel: I agree that a CMS would be good and might even be necessary in the long term. Have you had a chance to try any out yet? I was thinking though that in the short term it might be easier to use weblog software as a site CMS if the effort to learn and adapt the CMS to bilingual is too difficult. Danial: Have you or Asif made the corresponding changes in WP1.5 like Asif had in WP1.2? Regardign responsibilities, I think a coordinator is necessary but at the same time it will be good to assign specific tasks to specific people. So someone should take responsibility for managing the Urdu Wiki, someone should manage the Urdu blogging weblog, and so on. Qadeer: Since the Urdu forum was your idea, I would suggest you manage that. That would include installing it, fixing any problems, updating it to latest versions including patching for security holes, moderating, selecting and adding forum topics etc.

About the other ideas for content, I would say we should start with what we have right now and then add content over time.

Steven: Thanks. We are more interested in having the site content be bilingual in Urdu and English than in having the Drupal interface in Urdu. I hope that would be easy to accomplish.

Nabeel: I agree that a CMS would be good and might even be necessary in the long term. Have you had a chance to try any out yet? I was thinking though that in the short term it might be easier to use weblog software as a site CMS if the effort to learn and adapt the CMS to bilingual is too difficult.

Danial: Have you or Asif made the corresponding changes in WP1.5 like Asif had in WP1.2?

Regardign responsibilities, I think a coordinator is necessary but at the same time it will be good to assign specific tasks to specific people. So someone should take responsibility for managing the Urdu Wiki, someone should manage the Urdu blogging weblog, and so on.

]]> By: Ejaz Asi http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Ejaz Asi Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-197 Why not use WP or MT as CMS??? I don't think there should be any problem using WP or MT as CMS in this particular case. I have used commercially available as well as open source CMSes to extremely bizzarre JSP and XML based CMSes and my first thought goes to WP or MT in this particular case. Though, I would re-consider it and let you guys know how I feel about it. Why not use WP or MT as CMS??? I don’t think there should be any problem using WP or MT as CMS in this particular case. I have used commercially available as well as open source CMSes to extremely bizzarre JSP and XML based CMSes and my first thought goes to WP or MT in this particular case. Though, I would re-consider it and let you guys know how I feel about it.

]]> By: Asif http://www.urduweb.org/blog/2005/05/32/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Asif Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.urduweb.org/blog/?p=32#comment-198 I seem to be a late entrant to this discussion. Just didnt know something was up here. I take UrduWiki. Moving it to new domain can also be left to me. ->Zack: I haven't spent time on Wordpress 1.5. Danial is using it so he may help us in this regard. Please dont go for a too complex CMS. It would be the worst mistake. I haven't used myself but heard of people using WP for CMS. So Ejaz's idea is worth consideration. ->Zack: Too many copies of UrduBlogs' indices are confusing and time-consuming. I remember you once asked for solution. Any thoughts on it? I seem to be a late entrant to this discussion. Just didnt know something was up here.

I take UrduWiki. Moving it to new domain can also be left to me.

->Zack: I haven’t spent time on Wordpress 1.5. Danial is using it so he may help us in this regard.

Please dont go for a too complex CMS. It would be the worst mistake. I haven’t used myself but heard of people using WP for CMS. So Ejaz’s idea is worth consideration.

->Zack: Too many copies of UrduBlogs’ indices are confusing and time-consuming. I remember you once asked for solution. Any thoughts on it?

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