Features/Requests-Abstract

Language List

#If I want to select "Ga", I have to type "gaa". It should start searching from 2 letters.  Vincent: I must find a way, that if there is an EXACT MATCH, the language appear on top.

1. The separate line is better to be gray, unselectable. Vincent: It's already grey, but I have not found any way to make it unselectable yet

1. The gap between separate line and items can be smaller. Vincent: Ok

1. The tooltip is only functional when hovering the mouse on the language name instead of the whole item. And its time lag is too long. Vincent: Ok, I'll try

1. The tooltip can be as good-looking as that "1 - Beginner ..." in "Find Friends". Vincent: Ok, I'll try

1. In the tooltip, there can be a line break between autos and alters. Vincent: Corrected

GrimPixel: Elsewhere such as when hovering the mouse on the flag icon of a user's profile, are not applied yet.

1. When I type "Chinese", there are alters in the parenthesis of "Mandarin Chinese" and "Yue Chinese". But I don't need them. Vincent: Ok, I see what you mean. I'll try

1. I think the tooltip can make parenthesis not needed.

1. I mean when users click on the search bar, those languages will be displayed; if users type something, then it start to search. Vincent: Ok, I get it, good idea, that's easy to do.

There can be a search history of it. And the history can be deleted by item.

Requests by users

1. Request by Sasha (https://polyglotclub.com/language/english/question/23183). It would be great to have possibility to mark all notifications as viewed with one click and also letters. Online status, and the search between online users. Notifications about corrections and votes.

Lessons

1. Sometimes it doesn't show the link to home page of the website, such as Features and Home. Vincent: Ok

1. GrimPixel: So, there should be an option "in progress" for each lesson selected by default, and can be deselected and selected again by users. The "in progress" should be displayed with the title. Vincent: it's hardest to do what I want with Mediawiki as this is not something I developed myself but it has been developed by hundreds of developers, but I'll try with a Mediawiki extension, there must be one doing what you describe. You can also search for "mediawiki extensions" in Google and suggest one you like... GrimPixel: I have just tried to search. It's hard. I will continue. Vincent: I mean, you will not find exactely your need but something similar, or you will find other interesting stuff... but it can be technical. don't search too much, i'll do it

1. GrimPixel: Maybe listing categories on the main page is more convenient.

culture

1. As we can see, in wiki lessons, when it comes to culture, the list of languages does not fit. So I think that as a lesson of culture can involve many countries or peoples, it's better to add a new feature "tags", which includes countries, peoples, and an option "world". I think there may also be a "History" sharing the tags with "Culture".

1. I also think another set of tags can be applied to vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. And then, those "in many languages", "in many cultures" can be picked out from "English" into "World", which is more reasonable.

lesson topics

1. GrimPixel: I see you have added some function to Wiki. I think colours are good for indicating content with different purposes. Is there this one? Vincent: I must update the MediaWiki software to the latest version, we will discover the new features

1. GrimPixel: There are pictures in Wiki that depict country maps. But the border may annoy some people. Vincent: URL please, I don't know what you mean GrimPixel: For example , some Chinese lessons have a picture of the map of China on the flag, but its border can frustrate Indians for it's not according to McMahon Line. Also, countries with larger area seems to be similar with smaller ones, such as the picture of that lesson about Russia and Ukraine. Vincent: Ok I see

Locations

1. Correcting the COUNTRY list is a priority (easy to do)

then correcting other administrative levels (harder to do)

1. GrimPixel: This one even have Chinese in location. https://polyglotclub.com/member/xiangfanqq

Errors

1. Location is not good enough, because it requires a “city”, but people can input a province and select it, such as “Shandong”. There is also a problem about repeated names, for example, “Jinan (Shandong)” and “Jinan Shi (Shandong Sheng)”; “Paris (Île-de-France, France)”, “Paris (Paris, France)”, “Paris 02 (Île-de-France, France)” and “Paris 08 (Île-de-France, France)”.
2. Many flags of countries are also in lack or wrong.

1. GrimPixel: The flaw is repeated names, from country to city. There is never any duplicate with the 3 country, region, city

Changes to current country list

rename

Åland Islands: Aland Islands

merge

Czech Republic, Czechia

Kingdom of Norway, Norway

Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Myanmar (Burma)

Republic of Indonesia, Indonesia

The Netherlands, Netherlands

create (excluding uninhabited and scientists-only islands)

Akrotiri and Dhekelia

British Indian Ocean Territory

Cocos (Keelings) Islands

Cook Islands

Isle of Man

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Montserrate

Nauru

Niue

Norfolk Islands

Palau

Pitcairn

Saint Barthelemy

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Tokelau

Tuvalu

Vatican City

break

Congo: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo

delete

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Flags

1. http://www.icondrawer.com/flag-icons.php

For French Overseas Collectivities and Overseas Regions, Only French Polynesia and New Caledonia have official flags. 'The unofficial flags are not the most popular ones, so it means to change them to French flag.'

Chat

Text/Video Chat

• GrimPixel: Text/Video CHAT is still activated after I log out. I opened two index pages, logged out from one and see this on the other page after I logged in again. Vincent: Thanks I understand, this is easy to solve

Translation Team

• w`1it is hard to translate accurately if it doesn’t show the context. I think there can be a link to the page in each sentence. There are also “finished” sentences in need of correction. When possible I can add a link to the page.
• People should also be able to translate languages which they are learning, it is because, for example, very few people learn Esperanto as a mother tongue, but learners are many and they can do it. Vincent: even with people native of the language the quality is not perfect, so it will be worse if they are not natives GrimPixel: Maybe better, because learning the mother tongue is by pure imitating, but learning others is systematical, so native speakers may translate worse than trained learners.
• GrimPixel: Before I click on "Search Item?", it only shows the not adopted. After I click on "Search Item?", it only shows the translated and adopted. I also think there can be a text box to input the page number.
• GrimPixel: There is a need to decide a Chinese name of the website, or it can be translated diversely. I have no good idea now, but the last resort is 多语言者俱乐部 or 波利格洛特俱乐部. Vincent: we can decide together for your translations but It's hard to develop something on the site only for one language. It's true that Chinese translates also names
  • https://polyglotclub.com/translate_item.php?lang_id=28&item_id=1148 Not relative to language learning: 玻璃格俱乐部.
  • https://polyglotclub.com/translate_item.php?lang_id=28&item_id=135 Not so relative to lanugage learning. Old-fashioned and not impressive: 百灵阁亿言堂.
  • GrimPixel: My translation, proudly: 聚言俱乐部 / 聚言俱樂部.
• GrimPixel: When I use the "Search Item", only the first page is available. Vincent: yes I know it will be corrected but later
• GrimPixel: The item "Offer a Home" can be confusing. It can be changed to "provide lodging". Vincent: Ok
• GrimPixel: Translations by outsiders are really disappointing. I think it's necessary to build courses in those languages, and a test before joining translation team is required. Vincent: that's why I chose to suggest to translate only the natives of the language and even with date the quality is not the best
• GrimPixel: What if the English sentence is wrong? Vincent: When you try to translate from English to English, it's not a translation but a correction actually, you can try https://polyglotclub.com/translate.php?lang_id=36 GrimPixel: I can't search in this page
• GrimPixel: The ultimate form of translation team: in every page, there is a button "translate or polish". After selecting it, users will be able to click any passage in the page, and be directed to the item page of translation team.
• GrimPixel: What if I want to edit the item with 1000 votes?
• GrimPixel: Don't you think it's better to say "Club will send you an e-mail" than "Polyglot will send you an e-mail"? Vincent: where is this?: then I'll correct by "Polyglot Club send you an email" GrimPixel: Everywhere. Orz There are so many cases that the site call itself "Polyglot".
• GrimPixel: There are "Type language name" and "Type languge name in English", the latter can be merged with the former.
• GrimPixel: The list of "top translators" is too long, so there is a large blank in the page.
• GrimPixel: When entering the translation page, it should be clicking the whole frame
• GrimPixel: For some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, the text is partially covered by the frame.
• GrimPixel: The icon of google translate is so old. Maybe it can be changed.

Forum

There is a “My Forum”, but "Forum” is not shown on top bar. Also, there is a “My Meetings”, in fact it can be easy to understand if it is called “My Events”. Maybe “Meetings” is more precise than “Events”.

Videos

1. "Beginner" should be "Basic", because the other two words "Intermediate" and "Advanced" are both adjectives, so "Beginner" should be changed. Vincent: good point GrimPixel: Also in "Language you want to learn" and "Language you can teach". Vincent:Ok
2. GrimPixel:"Back" and "Next" buttons can bu put below the video window.
3. GrimPixel: When going to the page, those which have the most "good" appear first. It gives a sense of there are always only those ones. Old ones are always prioritized, new ones are always supressed. To see the newest ones, users have to scroll down to the end of page to set "sort by creation date", but it doesn't work if I only select "sort by creation date". Vincent: yes, this is a bug. It has to be corrected!
4. GrimPixel: I can't see my video comment and number of Good from My Videos. It's obvious that the URL in this way is different from the one listed in "Videos". Vincent: Yes it's right the videos you added on your profile must link to the videos in the video section. That way all the likes an comment will appear.
5. Vincent: instead of choosing the video type, user can simply type the URL, and the video type will be automatically recongnized. We just have to say which video types are supported
6. GrimPixel: There are troubles watching Dailymotion and Vimeo. Dailymotion has been overstreched, and Vimeo doesn't show graphics unless double click to enter full screen mode. Vincent: It's been a long time since I checked that. format may have changed, so I must udpate
7. GrimPixel: Facebook videos are invalid now. Vincent: Ok, I'll correct

friends

1. In user’s profiles, there is an “Add friend” button, which is better to be shown as text “You are already friends!” if so. Vincent: yes, you are right.
2. And list of friends in profile should be placed under the main content, in case there are a lot of friends and it makes a large blank in the page.
3. In “My Friends”, order of the list should be last logged in. Users should be marked “inactive” if not log in for 30 days, so it will be easy to know by others. Vincent: yes, ok. GrimPixel: And there can be a function to hide them.
4. The two icons indicating user's gender are difficult to distinguish. Vincent: OK

Find friends

1. There can be a button "reverse", to reverse the condition, to find the ones with same "learning languages" and "teaching languages".Vincent: ok, yes why not
2. Vincent: many people want only native speakers. so the checkbox must be [ ] Only natives? if it is checked, only natives will appear, else natives and non natives, any levels
3. GrimPixel: "delete" button should be placed after each item. Vincent: Yes

Chat softwares

1. And, “software” is an uncountable noun.

social media
Facebook / Messenger
YouTube
WhatsApp
WeChat
QQ / Qzone
Instagram
Tumblr
Twitter
Sina Weibo
Baidu Tieba
Skype
Viber
Snapchat
LINE
Pinterest
YY
LinkedIn
Telegram
VKontakte
BBM
KakaoTalk
Other

login

1. GrimPixel: No automatic login.Vincent: Ok, now I understand that you check the box and the next time you reach the page, there's no automatic login. I'll check

1. GrimPixel: "Log in" and "Register now" can be placed together at the center of the page.

register

1. GrimPixel: I think that means no blank option and it generates the default option according to IP address. Vincent: yes that's it.
2. Security check seems to be still unavaliable in China. Italki has a solution of providing a special one for Chinese. Vincent: ok i'll check

GrimPixel: I think it's better to have those steps integrated to one step.

Top menu

• It can be icons and when the cursor moves there, a tooltip appears and show the name.

Polls

GrimPixel: There can be a section where people can ask their questions and let other people select answers.

Events

GrimPixel: Some events doesn't show THEREAR E {1} PLACES LEFT!, such as https://polyglotclub.com/france/ile-de-france/paris/event/1627#blank.

GrimPixel: Some pages have insecure pictures.

GrimPixel: There should be a number of remaining places of an event near the "join" button.

Tags

There will be tags for each wiki lesson and quiz, including language names, country names, people names, and some other.

Misc.

• In Corrections and Videos, after selecting a language, there is also a “select a language” in the new page. So there is no need to select the language at first.
• Threads of Videos, Forum, etc. are in chronological order of last updates, so there should be the dates of last update instead of dates of being created.
• In Corrections and Questions, words below “Please respect our submission rules”, “How to ask a good question” are too small. It can be not comfortable for old people.
• There are so many explanations written capitalized, but as far as I know, some people are not accustomed to this if their mother tongues are not in Latin Script.
• Some texts in translated pages are not suitable for the common format, such as "remember me" has covered a big part of "login" in Japanese.
• One language should not be selected more than once in "language you want to learn", "language you can teach" and Find Friends. GrimPixel: You have noticed that.
• When changing photo, the preview on the uppe-left corner hinders dragging from there. Vincent: OK
• GrimPixel: There is no link to https://polyglotclub.com/language/ on index page. Vincent: do you think it's useful? I did not put that link because there was already a link to corrections, questions, videos GrimPixel: It's just similar with the index. It doesn't have so many functions, and languages are not the users' learning or teaching ones. It can be considered as the prototype of current index. I think there is no use of it now.
• GrimPixel: Do you consider broadcasting live events in Paris on Twitch or Youtube? Vincent: Event is a big function of the site but they are actually really working in Paris and Aix, where I live. So a big improvement must be done and promotion too... so I really have to look into that.
• [COMPLETED] GrimPixel: The icons of "They talk about us!" are shown incompletely. Vincent: Screen copy here please. Vincent: Now I understand :) I have never see this. Vincent: I'm glad it's completed because I did not change anything for that

• GrimPixel: Are there good ways to improve page loading speed? It needs to be done according to Alexa. Vincent: yes, Google analytics tells me also the loading time has increased. It something I must work on. There are many ways to improve loading spead. We've recently changed our database engine (from MySql to MarianaDb), I think that's why, parameters must be changed.
• GrimPixel: Do you consider achievements? This thing has been proved to be attractive in video games. Duolingo has applied it. Vincent: I haven't thought of it. Please write example. GrimPixel: Such as badges for event hosts, then people will trust them, and the hosts will be more active.
• GrimPixel: After submitting profile update, there should be a message to tell if it is successful or not. Vincent: Yes
• GrimPixel: I think there can be more than one native language, because I have met some this kind of people on Discord. And I have seen on HiNative that natives may be not good at teaching, so "native" doesn't mean 5 stars of "language you can teach".
• GrimPixel: After clicking on the mail icon on the top bar, it should display the mails right away, not after clicking on another mail icon.
• GrimPixel: When clicking a user's avatar, there should not be a scroll bar when viewing information, that is to say, make that little window larger.