Translatewiki.net

translatewiki.net is a localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and free software projects. It started out with localisation for MediaWiki. Later support for MediaWiki extensions, FreeCol, OpenStreetMap, Etherpad Lite and other free software projects was added.

Over 300 localisations of MediaWiki and its extensions use translatewiki.net as a convenient translation medium, as well as for coordination and maintenance. Mantis, FreeCol and Mwlib.rl can also be translated in translatewiki.net. More projects are welcome.

You can participate in the translation effort into a language you know. The translations of the MediaWiki interface into new languages for requested projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are also done there.

This project is not part of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, but it is supported by the Wikimedia Language team and volunteers. Translatewiki.net is an associated project of non-profit fiscal sponsor called Software in the Public Interest. The translation functionality is provided by a MediaWiki extension.


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translatewiki.net and MediaWiki
translatewiki.net supports in-wiki translation of all the messages of core, extensions and skins. All translation of MediaWiki user interface messages should go through translatewiki.net and not committed directly to code. Only the English messages and their initial documentation must be done in the source code.

Core MediaWiki and extensions must use system messages for any text displayed in the user interface. For an example of how to do this, please see Manual:Special pages. If the extension is well written, it will probably be included in translatewiki.net in a few days, after its staff notices it on Gerrit. If it's not noticed, contact them. If it's too unstable to be translated, note so in the code or commit and contact them if necessary.

Handling support requests
Translators may have questions about some of the messages you create. Translatewiki.net provides a support request system that allows translators the ability to ask you, the project owner, questions regarding messages so that they can be better translated. This short tutorial guides you through the workflow of handling translatewiki.net support requests.

Links

 * translatewiki.net
 * translatewiki:Translating:Localisation for developers
 * translatewiki/ - Public configuration repository
 * On Phabricator
 * Localisation landing page