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