Does anybody have any suggestions for my problem. I have a website translated into a number of languages, which exists on separate websites using Domain Access. So:

example.co.uk is the "original" in English example.de has the German translation example.fr the French translation etc.

To translate a page, you can either click on the Translate tab on example.co.uk/foo or use the translation table on admin/content/translation_overview. This, however ONLY works if you have the "administer nodes" permission. Without it, if you're on example.co.uk you can't see the existing German translation nor on example.de can you see that example.de/foo is a translation of example.co.uk/foo. This is presumably because without this permission, the user on example.co.uk is unable to see that the translated node on example.de exists as it's not been published on example.co.uk.

This has utterly kippered me, as now my translators would need a high level of permission to successfully translate any new pages. Any suggestions?

I had thought to see if I could use Rules to add an additional role to translators only when on specific pages (either translation_overview or a custom view) and remove it on all other pages but this doesn't seem to work as Rules doesn't appear to trigger actions when you're on an admin page - or at least I can't work out a condition that would trigger an action on either admin/content/translation_overview or on a page that is a view. This way also seems a bit of an insane solution, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to work this out.

The only other solution I can think of is to publish all English content to the subsites, but that also has a number of major problems, not least of which it enables people to edit the original English translation.