Help:Extension:Translate/Installation

Due to the nature of rapid development of Translate extension, it requires quite a new version of software to work. All distributions may not have stabilised such new packages to fulfill the requirements.

Requirements
The following software is required to install this extension.
 * 1) MediaWiki 1.16 or newer
 * 2) PHP: 5.2.x, 5.1.x may work
 * 3) PHPlot (optional) for statistics graphs

In addition shell access is required to run maintenance scripts.

Getting the source
There are two ways to get the source. The first way is to use Extension Distributor at mediawiki.org. The second way is to get the source straight from the version control system using subversion, for example:

svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Translate
 * 1) at mediawiki extension folder

This is the suggested way, because the code is in constant change and new features and bugfixes are made often. Also, only the latest version is currently supported, due to the lack of resources and non-maturity of the code base. It is easy to update this way, only svn up is needed. Warning: the latest version may not work with a stable version of MediaWiki.

Activating the extension
After the code is put into known place, all that is needed is a line similar to this in the LocalSettings.php that lies in MediaWiki's root directory:

After that line it is possible to add configuration settings that enable new features or change the way the extension works. See Configuration how to do this.