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[Aaron Wells <1296407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The booklet plugin deals more with labels. What Gregor's getting at, I
think, is user-entered contents. It sounds like what he's asking for, is
the ability for a user to enter multilingual content. For instance, if I
was setting up my resume, and I wanted under educational experience to
put both the English and Spanish name for my university. And then when
the page is viewed by someone whose languages setting is English they
would see "University of Nevada, Reno", and when the page is viewed by
someone whose language setting is Spanish they would see "Universidad de
Nevada a Reno".

It's hard to think of a good interface for this, though. There are two
options I'm aware of, neither of which is great:

1.  Moodle 1.9, I recall, let users enter content using a special
Moodle-only tag that specified what language it was in and then used a
post-processing text filter to swap out the proper language. Like, I
would type in my university as "<filter lang="en">University of Nevada,
Reno</filter><filter lang="es">Universidad de Nevada a Reno</filter>".
But that's rather unwieldy, and it requires educating users about the
existence of these tags.

2. Another option is to have a drop-down for language selection next to
each text field where a user can enter artefact text. But that seems
like it would be overkill, for a feature that would probably be rarely
used.

It might be worth seeing if anyone else has solved this UI riddle,
though. Are there other web applications that allow users to enter
multilingual content? What do they do?

Unless we can come up with an intuitive and non-intrusive UI for this,
I'm leaning more towards the booklet approach, of requiring users to
create separate artefacts and separate pages, if they want to have
content in separate languages.

** Tags added: usability

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Title:
  Multilinguality of Mahara artefacts

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara supports different language packs for the web interface of the
  individual user account, but it isn’t possible to have portfolio pages
  in two languages at the same time (for example a presentation
  portfolio with a CV in German and one in English). To achieve this it
  would be necessary for artefacts to contain values in different
  languages.

  The main problem are not labels (which can be in different languages),
  but artefact values, which can not be in more than one language at a
  time.

  In the terms of multilinguality it would be also good if the user
  would have the option of selecting in which language the page should
  be displayed.

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