Thread:Extension talk:Translate/Use Translate extension only off-line

Hello,

we would like to use the Translate extension, since it seems to be the most versatile and easy to maintain option of having a multilingual wiki. But from all I've read it remains unclear to me, whether we have to depend on external communities to do the translation for us, or if we could do that by ourself, too. There is a method of translating content "off-line", but that requires exporting content and then importing translated files again, which is cumbersome and therefor defeats the point of having the extension for the most part.

Is it in any way possible to use the extension and do the translation entirely by ourself? Eg. could we set wgTranslateTranslationServices to be an empty array and then find all strings waiting for translation on Special:Translate of our own MediaWiki?

Thank you for your time, Xavier Mol.