Help:Extension:Translate/Translation example/sco



Walcome, wunnerfu oewrseter. We hae muckle wairk tae dae: sae lat's luik at the basics verra quicklie sae that ye can stairt aes suin aes possible. Efter this trainin ye'l ken hou tae uise the owersetin tuil set. The effects wil be permenant, sae gif ye dinna want tae learn hou tae uise it, than please stap readin nou.

We hope that whauriver ye come fae, the owersetin admeenistraters awreadie hae sommit setup fer tae owerset. This tutorial uises the Fréttinga page, that is creautit in the tutorial fer owersetin admeenistraters. The subjects covered here dinnae depend oan that parteecular page, n applie tae awthin that ye can owerset wi this tuil.

Mibbi ye awreadie hae aen airtin fae somebodie, spierin ye tae owerset sommit. Gif ye dinnae, ye can check the owerseter guidalbuird, in yerr wiki fer sommit tae owerset. Gif ye juist want tae see hou it wirks in general, ye can still read along n watch the screenshots fer tae get aen impression o it.

Usualie ye cannae dae owersets wioot spierin fer permission. Some wikis houniver hae enabled owersetin fer aw uisers. Y'l quicklie see gif ye dinnae hae the richts fer tae owerset. Gif this is sae, than contact aen owersetin admeenistrater o yer wiki. Lat's stairt wi findin the owersetin view.


 * 1a. Gae tae the Fréttinga page.
 * 2a. Clap the "owerset this page" airtin (gif ye dinnae see it than ye dinnae hae permeession tae owerset).

Or ye can gie this ae shote:


 * 1b. Gae tae the owerseter guidalbuird.
 * 2b. Clap the name o onie message groop that haes onowerset messages.

Messages fer tae owerset ar groopit intae "message groop": Ilka owersetable page is ae message groop, bit thaur can bi ither kinns o message groops n aw.


 * 3. Chuise ae leid ither than the leid o the soorce text (normalie Ingils or ).

Owersetin eediter
This view n variations o it ar the basic interface that ye'l be wirkin in. The lang leet o messages that still need tae be owerset mey whiles get ye doun, bit fortunatelie we dinnae actualie need tae watch that leet aw that affen. Ye shid see at least some onowerset messages here. Lat's dae yer first owerset. Clap ae row fer tae apen the owersetin eediter. Ye'l see the soorce text that ye need tae owerset n ae text aurie whaur ye can write yer owerset. Gif ye clapit the first message leetit fer the page Fréttinga, it shid sey "Fréttinga" aes the content. Cause it's ae name, ye dinnae usualie need tae change it, sae ye can capie the waa it is intae the text aurie. Gif yer leid uises ae differt writin system, than ye can chuise tae transleeterate it. Than juist clap hain n ye'r duin!


 * 4. Clap the message name oan the cair column.
 * 5. In the eediter dialog, write the owerset oo the soorce text in the steid reserved fer it.
 * 6. Clap or tap "Hain owerset".



In somm wiki confeegerations, ye mey see ither things in the eediter beside the soorce text n aw. Thaur mey bi suggestions fae owersetin memries or machine owersetin systems. Thaur can be ae section fer advice that gie ye verra important information that ye need tae uiss tae dae ae correct owerset. Sae gif thaur's advice, read it carefulie. Gif thaur's nae advice n ye feel like you need it, spier somebodie in the wiki tae eik it; gif ye knaw enoo aneat the text that needs tae be owerset, eik it yersel. This advice halps ye tae owerset better n faster. Dinnae feel ashamed spierin fer clarifeecations – it's verra liklie that tens or hunners o ither owerseters ar wastin thair time thinkin aneat the same issues.

Anither thing aneat the owersetin halp: gif ye get a heize up fae seein the message owerset intae ither leids, than gae tae yer preferences –> Eeditin –> Owersetin opties n eik yin or mair halper leids fer yersel.

Yer walcom tae dae twa-three mair owersets tae gie the ither buttons ae shote. Clapin the suggestions or the "Paste soorce" button wil immeediatlie paste that text in the text aurie, owerwritin oniethin that's awreadie in that text aurie.

Translation view
Here we ar again, watching the leet wi onowerset messages. Gif ye refresh the page, the leet shid nou be shorter, or e'en tuim. The view has information lik descreeption o the groop, bit mair interestin at the tap ye can chuise leid, message groop n differt message filters.

Aw o the message groops wirk the samm waa, n ye dinna need tae fash aneat thaim ower muckle. The important thing is that ye aye need tae chuise ae message groop fer tae wirk oan, n things lik stateestics n completion percentages ar calculatit bi message groop level.



Fae the differt views oan the baur at the bottom, ye can switch tae the view suitable fer daein ither wee joabs, lik luikin ower or owersetin hale pages. Ye shid see somm or aw o the following buttons: "Leet", "Page" and "Luikower". Read mair aneat luikin ower owersets n ither qualitie assurance methods in the qualitie assurance page.

The page can haud the message groop status naur the message groop descreeption n aw, this can bi set fer ilka leid o the groop; gif ye see a dropdoun selecter o the possible states, it means that ye can change it, n ye shid update it whan ye'r wirkin oan the owerset or gif ye'r luikin it ower. See mair aneatt wirkflaw states in the message groop states page.

Important concepts


You already know what a message group is, and have seen the translation editor and assistant languages. Now the translation administrator may have continued their page translation tutorial and changed the contents of the page Fréttinga. When the text that must be translated changes, it will show up again in the list of untranslated messages and also in the list of outdated messages.

When facing outdated messages, you have two options. You can confirm that the translation does not need any changes after all, or you can make the necessary changes to it. Messages may appear to be outdated automatically when a new translation is saved, if the automatic checks find issues in the translation, like for example unbalanced link syntax missing the other "&#93;" character. You will also get a warning about these when editing the translation.

The outdated translations are marked with red. If you now return to the translated page by clicking the link on the message group description, you should see that your translations are already there. Most of the translations you will make are applied immediately with exception about some message groups, like many of those in translatewiki.net, where the translation are regularly and manually exported by translation administrators to the software they are used in.

One more useful tip when translating translatable pages: magic words like  will format the output in the translation language, not in the language of the source text. If you like, you can read more on how magic words work and should be used in translations. This is not required reading, though.

Getting your translation to another wiki
If you're working with software documentation, you are probably translating this material because you want to use it somewhere else. To export your translation, go to the main translation page, and click the "Export" tab. Choose the language you want, and copy the wikitext from the box. You can then paste that text on to any wiki. This fast, simple process only works for translations, not for the original source language.

Exporting the original language (usually English on MediaWiki) for use on another wiki, without all of the translation markup, is more complicated.


 * 1) First, open the page in the wikitext editor.  This will produce a URL similar to.
 * 2) Second, manually change this URL to insert a subpage for the language you want.  If the original is written in English, then you add /en after your page name, so that the URL says    Press return so that it will open the modified URL you just created.
 * 3) Then you can copy the wikitext out of the new wikitext editing window, without the translation markup.  This can be pasted onto another wiki.

Anyone can export text. You do not need to be a translator or translator admin to get a copy of the translation.