Improved UI for adding content in (more than one) language.

[rosiel]

Pls tag: "Use Case" and "UI".

Following up on #808, which describes how multilingual content is represented internally and as Linked Data, I'd like to improve the ability for cataloguers/metadata folks to add content in multiple languages.

Example: We have a lot of works in English, but a few which are in other languages. I (metadata person) don't speak those other languages, but want to enter the titles properly including the titles in their original languages. But I don't want to translate the entirety of the metadata, and I don't want to have to read the Drupal UI in that language (which seems to be what happens when you add a translation).

The way that it currently works really feels like doing Web Content Translation - preparing a site to be read in a different language. It does not feel like "doing metadata" - adding strings to fields, with language information where necessary.

(based on discussion with @seth-shaw-unlv )

[seth-shaw-unlv]

Currently Drupal content translation requires a user to enter a separate editor to translate content.

First we create the node:

Then we select the language we want to add:

Then we provide a translation in that language:

Then we can see that node's translation by adding the language code in the URL (e.g. "mysite.example/de/node/1").

Ideally we would have a widget that allows adding multiple translations for a given field in a single form:

We would also need a formatter that could show all the translations for a field.

[Natkeeran]

@rosiel Interface need not be translated to be able to translate fields. You can customize which fields need to be translated.

Drupal default multilingual feature set and behaviour is well thought out. The out of the box behaviour is useful in most of the common multi language use cases. We have that use case locally at UTSC, and for a community archive that I volunteer with.

I am good with supporting this use case as long as we don't break Drupal's powerful multilingual support structure.