Grimm wrote:An ideal text workpage would have
- automatic updates from trunk with current text, new monsters, items and so forth
Could be tricky in case of conflicts.
- a system for easily finding recent changes
- changes labelled with name of changer
Isn't that what a wiki does automatically? Unless you mean to include changes taking place in trunk, in which case not so much. Might be useful to set up a system akin to the documentation, i.e. that descriptions and translations are only ever transferred from the wiki to the repository, never vice versa.
- a system for making requests for improvements to a piece of text
Once the translations get going, I expect the bug tracker to get flooded with bug reports about typos and grammar errors in all the languages available. I bring this up here because the two issues might be related.
- an editing interface that is easier to use than the dev wiki one
Hmm... not sure what you mean. Tables and formatting are a problem in editing, I admit, and it would be helpful if there was a better way to handle those. (Maybe find some way to get this to work without tables, just a simple header and then under sub-headers, the original text and the translation/updated description.) Is that what you mean?
The Items page is what we're currently working on. Dungeon features, Uniques, and Gods are the next three, in that order.
Do you have any plans for the smaller description sets for species, skills and spells? Personally, I consider these more important than the flavour descriptions of features and items, so I would start out with translating these, but of course there's little point to doing that if they get completely rewritten afterwards.