Hi @mohamed
To clarify, I have not actually been involved in translating the text in the OpenEMR interface; I have worked with translators publishing non-English written documentation of another project to its wiki repository. Doing a search on ‘translation’ in this forum yields several threads on the topic but they are all quite old. However, maybe @brady.miller could give pointers to updated instructions on how to submit translations to OpenEMR?
Disregard this next if you are already familiar with writing and posting mediawiki documentation.
On the bottom of every page of the OpenEMR wiki- this one, for exaple:
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Wiki_Home_Page
is the section, ‘Wiki Instructions’. You can find there everything you need to know to begin publishing in the OpenEMR wiki.
Particularly the page, ‘Account Request and Wiki Authorship Primer’.
If you have questions about those processes I’m familiar with them and am happy to explain.
It must be mentioned that some OpenEMR contributors started up a drive a while ago to convert the documentation wiki from mediawiki to drupal.
Their observation is correct in that mediawiki is indeed ‘outdated and difficult to maintain’. The concept behind the planned migration seems well thought out and the migration strategy is impressively detailed. I wish the project well, but as is so often the case with FOSS projects, they depend on the contributors having the time to do the work, and this migration project has been in the works for several years. If the migration does get up and running new submissions will certainly need to be tailored to the drupal platform, but until that happens I will continue to publish in the existing wiki.
I think making a video such as you describe would be a wonderful contribution to the body of OpenEMR documentation. OpenEMR installation is documented in many different places and mostly written for the tech- proficient. Having one resource in an accessible place would be very convenient and helpful.
As far as the stripped down version you envision, that method sounds like a great approach. But as my motto says, ‘I am not a dev’ so I wouldn’t know what deeper complications might exist that have prevented the OpenEMR devs from already having done it that way.
Best- Harley