Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary

Syntax: Preferred form

Also known as alternative forms

description

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Aggregate message group

Also known as aggregate group

A message group which is just a collection of other message groups; technically, the union of one or more primary message groups (sometimes via aggregation of other aggregate groups), a kind of secondary message group

Code map

map>wikt:map#Verb|Maps the MediaWiki language codes to their equivalents in the translation file names in other projects

Discouraging

A way of hiding translatable pages to discourage further translation

Encouraging

The operation that undoes discouraging

FFS

Short for file format support.

These modules handle reading and writing of files in various formats.

Forced priority languages

The priority languages when translations to other languages are disabled by a translation administrator.

Fuzzy

A 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.

Insertable

A piece of text in the translatable text, such as a variable or plural syntax, that does not require changing in the translations; the pieces that the system recognizes varies per message group; in the translation interface, a button to insert them quickly is shown.

Language code

The ISO 639 code of the language, like   for English

Mark as reviewed

Also known as review

The act of marking a message (a translation) as good in the translation review feature

Mark for translation

Also known as re-mark for translation

The action of making a page available for translation (i.e. a translatable page) for the first time or to propagate updates after the translatable page source has been updated; this happens after the tagging.

Message

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

Message documentation

Translation tips and information about the context of the message for translators

Message group

A collection of messages that belong together; translators always work on a message group.

Message group description

A long wikitext snippet shown in Special:Translate and other places.

Message group id

The identifier of the message group; every message group must have one and it must be unique within the wiki; for translatable pages (groups and aggregate groups), it includes a prefix, e.g.  

Message group label

A short human readable name of the message group

Message handle

In the code, the MessageHandle class wraps around the title class with useful functions.

Message index

The mapping from translation unit identifiers to the message groups they belong to

Message key

Also known as message identifier, message name

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

Message namespace

The ns>Help:Namespaces|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

Optional message

A message which normally is not translated, but can be translated if the language needs it; it is normally ignored by the special pages (not counted as untranslated) and can be included/listed by selecting the appropriate options.

Outdated translation

A translation which needs updating because its source text has changed.

Primary message group

A technical name of the "normal" message groups. The primary message groups all together constitute a partition of the set of all messages: in other words, each message belongs to one and only one primary message group.

Priority languages

The most wanted translations provided by the translation administrator

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See message documentation.

Secondary message group

A message group which is just a collection of messages of other groups (can be an aggregate group or not); technically, any group which is not primary.

Segmentation

The act of splitting the text into translation units by placing translate tags and empty lines inside translate tags.

Source language

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

Source page

Also known as original page

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

Stash

Also known as translation stash

A place of temporary storage of translations which will then be automatically discarded. Can be translated similar to "sandbox" or similar.

State

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

Tagging

The act of placing translation tags in the translatable page source; part of the preparation for page translation

Task

An option in Special:Translate (whether in a dropdown, radio button or tab selection), like view all messages, or review 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

A 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 editor where translation happens

Translation memory

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

Translation page

Also known as translated page, translation subpage

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

Translation page template

Also known as 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

Translation review

The feature provided for proofreading translations and marking them as checked; see assurance>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Quality_assurance|quality assurance

Translate tags

  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

''Also known as unit identifier, translation unit page title

The name of the translation unit, from which the corresponding message identifier derives (since March 2013, can only be an incremental integer).

Translation unit marker

Also known as unit marker

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

Translation unit page

Also known as unit page

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

can be accessed using Translations:Page/Unit no/Language code eg- Translations:Main Page/1/de

Translation unit source

Also known as unit source

The text of a translation unit in the source languages

Workflow

The series of passages the translation work for a message group is subject to, implemented with group-states>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Message group states|message group states on Translate

Workflow states

Also known as message group workflow states

The states a message group can be in, following the workflow (see Workflow)