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What is a Forum? |
Historically "Forum" stood for a reunion held in a
public square, in which citizens discussed about important issues.
Today technology has modified the place and mode of communication,
the square has been substituted with Internet, and electronic mail
has taken the place of words.
A Forum can thus be defined a comfortable "virtual sitting
room," thanks to which each navigator has the possibility to
freely communicate, expressing ideas and comparing opinions about
various topics.
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What is the Logos Forum? |
The Logos Forum collects, in a "virtual bulletin
board," requests from all over the world, for translations that
are not in the dictionary, enabling the users to make suggestions
and translations of other navigator's requests.
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Who can use the Forum? |
Professional Navigators |
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Clients |
Translators |
Moderators |
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Clients that access the new Forum to insert a
request in the virtual bill board will automatically
setoff a search of all the translators that have worked
for them. The translators, advised by email about the
client’s request, will provide an answer. |
Translators will find helpful advice for the
documents they are working on by posting requests which
will automatically be forwarded to all the internal ad
external Logos translators, thus creating a global
collaboration network.
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Moderators will have specific habilitation to
correct, control and eventually eliminate requests of
dubious taste or suggestions that have been erroneously
entered.
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Non Professional Navigators |
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Browsing Navigators |
Registered Navigators |
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Are those who reached the Forum browsing through from
other links, they can register in the professional area
at any moment.
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Are frequent users of the Forum which have
already registered. |
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Forum Functions |
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| VIEW |
Area dedicated to the visualization of the Virtual Bill Board.
Selecting a Source Language and a Target Language it is possible to view all the requests within the chosen time frame.
There is another option that permits viewing only the requests which have been answered or the visualization of the Bill Board in the order of the dates of submission.
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| FIND |
Area dedicated to research within the Virtual Bill Board.
Through a unique request code, sent in by email, it is possible to directly trace the page containing the suggested translation of a requested term.
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| EDIT |
Area dedicated to input in the Virtual Bill Board.
Here the user can insert a request for translation after filling out the form. In case the translation already exists, a link will call up the page in the dictionary that carries the definition.
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"Virtual Bill Board" organization |
Organized in tables, the Virtual Bill Board can be consulted for
more than one request at a time, which can all be viewed
simultaneously. The request’s unique code, which appears in
the first column, has a link to the page where it is possible to
insert a translation suggestion. In this page the translator will
find more details to better focalize his type of suggestion. As soon
as the suggestion is inserted an email is sent off to whoever put in
the request, advising that a suggestion has arrived.
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CREDITS: Page dedicated to registered web users |
The CREDITS page is dedicated to registered web users. It gives daily, weekly and monthly statistics about the Forum’s activity, creating a Top List of users who have contributed to the growth of the Forum with their requests and suggestions.
The red dot  permits access to further information:
- located by the statistics it leads to detailed pages about the statistics
- located by #Suggest or #Request it leads to the Top List of suggestions and requests
- located by a name it shows a list of requests and suggestions by a chosen person
- located near a request or suggestion it leads to the detailed page about the translation request.
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SYMBOLS KEY |
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located by the statistics it leads to detailed pages about the statistics.
located by #Suggest or #Request it leads to the Top List of suggestions and requests.
located by a name it shows a list of requests and suggestions by a chosen person and with a further click it accesses the request page. |
The symbol new shows up next to a name, when browsing through the list of users, to highlight at least one daily input on behalf of that user. |
The symbol NOSUG means that the request has not received any translation suggestions yet. |
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