Extension:Translate

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Translate Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page, Locale, API
Description	Enables in-wiki translation and proofreading
Author(s)	Niklas Laxström, Siebrand Mazeland and others
Last version	Dated snapshots from time to time
MediaWiki	1.17, 1.18, 1.19
License	GPL 2.0 or later
Download	Download snapshot Subversion [Help] Browse source code View code changes User documentation Change log
Example	Translatewiki.net
Check usage (experimental)

The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every kind of text. It's used especially to translate software and to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.

Features

The Translate extension has many features specifically targeted to translators, while making back-end integration with actual source code as easy as possible. Meanwhile, everything runs inside MediaWiki, which allows users an almost endless degree of freedom for communication and self-organisation.

Features include:

• Structured wiki content page translation.
• In-wiki localisation and exporting of software interface messages (or just about anything).
• AJAX enabled web-based translation and proofreading in supported browsers, as well as gettext based export and import for off-line translation.
• Various aids to make the job of translators easier:
  • display of translations in globally defined other languages, optionally expanded with user defined languages;
  • collaborative editing of documentation of the use and context of messages;
  • translation memory and machine translation with external tools (tmserver, Google Translate, Apertium);
  • display of the latest change in the source message;
  • warnings about common mistakes like parameters that are not used.
• Pre-made modules for various open source products you can use as an example.
  • Support for various formats including: PHP, Java properties, Gettext and YAML.
• A versatile plug-in system to make it easy to add new projects as a message group.
• Various statistics (requires PHPlot for graphics):
  • translation completion percentages for all message groups in all supported languages;
  • translation completion percentages in all supported languages for any supported message group;
  • tool for making activity graphs for spans of time. Can display either number of edits or active users daily or hourly and includes many filters;
  • cloud overview of active languages and translators.

Support and documentation

Translate extension is using continuous development model, which means we are not doing any releases. You should get the latest version from svn and update from time to time to get new features and bug fixes. The core functionality is pretty stable, but there may be bigger changes from time to time. We might start doing actual releases if there is enough interest.

• See Installation
• See Configuration
• See User documentation – includes tutorials
• Live support at #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel at Freenode (best times are at European days and evenings)
• Code documentation
• Please report all issues and feature requests in the issue tracker

Translate extension was originally developed by User:Nikerabbit, and many other users like User:Raymond, User:SPQRobin and the Wikimedia Localisation team have contributed to its code and documentation. It is maintained by User:Nikerabbit and User:Siebrand.

Prominent users of the Translate extension

• http://translatewiki.net – The biggest wiki based open source software interface translation site and community.
• http://userbase.kde.org – Documentation wiki for KDE project which uses the page translation feature extensively.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org – Translates wiki content and uses the group status feature. Translation and translation review is enabled almost for all users of the wiki.