Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary

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• optional message
• ignored message

Syntax:

preferred form (alternative forms) 

description

Avoid alternative forms that are not just shortenings of the preferred form.

aggregate message group (aggregate group) 

message group which is just collection of other message groups

code map 

maps the mediawiki language codes to their equivalents in the translation file names in other projects

discouraging 

way of hiding translatable pages to discourage further translation

encouraging 

the operation that undoes discouraging

FFS 

short for file format support. these modules handles reading and writing of files in various formats

fuzzy 

translation that needs updating or fixing

fuzzying 

the act of marking translations fuzzy

helper language 

translations of the definition in helper languages are shown in the translation editor

mark for translation (re-mark for translation) 

the action of making tagged translatable page available for translation for the first time or updating to reflect the changes made to translatable page source

message 

the smallest translatable unit; each translation of a message has its own page in the wiki

message documentation 

translation tips and info about the context of the message for translators

message group 

collection of messages that belong together - translators always work on some message group

message group description 

long wikitext snippet shown in Special:Translate and other places

message group id 

unique within wiki identifier each message group must have

message group label 

short human readable name of the message group

message handle 

in the code, MessageHandle class wraps around title class with useful functions

message index 

mapping of translation unit page titles into message groups they belong to

message key (message identifier, message name)

the unique name of the message, which corresponds to its page title in the wiki (for instance, MediaWiki:Mainpage)

message namespace

the namespace the page of the message belongs to, which is the prefix of its page title and may depend on the project/product of the message and be named after it

outdated translation 

translation which needs updating because its source text has changed

priority languages 

list of the most wanted translations provided by translation administrator

qqq 

see message documentation

secondary message group 

message group which shares some or all messages with another message group

segmentation 

the act of splitting the text into translation units by the placement of translate tags and empty lines inside translate tags

source language 

the language from which content is translated (only one in the Translate extension so far)

source page

the page under which the translatable page source resides (the base page all the translation pages are subpages of)

state 

the current condition of the message group, as defined in the workflow

tagging 

the act of placing translatable tags into translatable page source

task 

option in Special:Translate, like view all messages, or accept translations

translatable page

a wiki page which has been prepared or marked for translation; meant as a message group, includes all the consequent translation pages and unit pages

translatable page source

the full text of the translatable page, including translation tags, from which the translation page template and all the translation units are extracted

translation administrator 

person who has access to page translation features and knows how to prepare and mark pages for translation

translation aids 

the collection of suggestions, message documentation, helper languages and other information besides the message definition

translation editor 

the javascript based popup where translation happens

translation memory 

the system which remembers previous translations of the same or similar words and provides suggestions

translation page (translated page, translation subpage)

translated version of translatable page residing as subpage of the translatable page

translation page template (translation template, page template, translatable page template)

the structure of a translatable page, that is the part which is not translated and is used in all translation pages

translate tags 

<translate> tags, the most important translation tags (see)

translation tags 

the special markers used to give instructions to the Translate extension about translatable pages

translation unit 

the smallest individually tracked component of translatable pages: the page is divided into paragraph-sized translation units and each unit is a message

translation unit identifier (unit identifier)

the name of the translation unit, from which the corresponding message identifier derives

translation unit source (unit source)

the text of a translation unit in the source language

translation unit page (unit page)

a page which contains the translation of a translation unit to a particular language

translation unit marker (unit marker)

a marker associated to a translation unit in translatable page source, which contains the translation unit identifier

workflow 

the series of passages the translation work for a message group is subject to [means something more specific in translate extension]