On 19-Feb-07, at 1:05 AM, Miguel Carrion Alvarez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19/02/07, janra at write-on.org <janra at write-on.org> wrote:
>> On 18-Feb-07, at 2:52 PM, Miguel Carrion Alvarez wrote:
>>
>> > Aha!
>> >
>> > As the site is intended to be in Spanish I did create a new user
>> > group, called "Visitantes" and made it the default user group for
>> > unregistered users. This is because I didn't necessarily want to  
>> have
>> > to exclude people from holding admin accounts in the future because
>> > they don't know English well enough to navigate an English-language
>> > admin interface.
>>
>> That's a good idea. I'm sorry that Scoop didn't let you do that for
>> everything. It never has been internationalized, I'm afraid.
>
> Well, we're involved in setting up French and Spanish sites so I
> suppose we'll have to internationalise it ourselves. We'll do the
> coding but occasionally we'll have to ask you where things are...

That isn't a problem. If you submit patches they'll be welcome, as  
long as they don't break the default operation of the site :-)

>> > I have set the "site control" anon_user_group back to  
>> 'Anonymous', and
>> > the new user page now displays new_user_html when visited by an
>> > unregisterad user. However, filling out the account creation form
>> > still results in '500 Internal Server Error'...
>
> Well, as it turns out it is now possible to create new user accounts,
> I don't know what that was about.

Odd. In any event, if you get a server error you will want to check  
the error log to find out where it happened.

> What I do know is that I had also changed anon_user_nick to 'Anónimo'
> and this seems to prevent me from changing the anonymous user's
> preferences.
>
> Specifically, I can go to |rootdir|/user/uid:-1/prefs/comments and I
> get the anonymous user's comment preferences. However, all the links
> to the various sections of user preferences replace 'uid:-1' with
> 'Anónimo', and when I try to update the "comment display mode" from
> "threaded" to "nested" and I am taken to
> |rootdir|/user/An%F3nimo/prefs/comments and told "Sorry, I can't seem
> to find that user". Is there any other way to change the anonymous
> user's preferences, is this supposed to work in the first place, and
> have I broken it by changing the nick or is this a bug?

Anonymous users don't have preferences specific to them, they get the  
default preferences. You can set those using the User Preferences  
Admin tool.

> I have detected other quirks and internationalisation issues and I
> will be consulting you about them, if you don't mind. Should I do this
> privately or on the scoop-help mailing list?

Either way is fine, I'll see it and reply to it just as quickly :-)  
For development questions, you may want to use the scoop-dev mailing  
list instead.

-janra