Help:Extension:Translate/Process flow in MediaWiki jobs

This page describes,


 * 1) The various jobs present in the Translate extension
 * 2) What happens when a page is marked for translation
 * 3) What happens when a section is translated

Glossary
See - Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary

Please ensure that you are familiar with the following terminology:


 * 1) message collection
 * 2) message group
 * 3) message handle
 * 4) message index
 * 5) source page
 * 6) state
 * 7) translatable page
 * 8) translatable page source
 * 9) translation page
 * 10) translation unit
 * 11) translation unit identifier
 * 12) translation unit marker
 * 13) translation unit page
 * 14) translation unit source

Jobs in Translate
This section describes the relevant jobs involved when a page is marked for translation or a section is translated.

TranslationsUpdateJob

 * 1) Creates and runs the   to update the translation unit pages in the source language.
 * 2) Regenerates the group stats for the page.
 * 3) Creates the   for all the translation pages and adds them to the job queue.
 * 4) Add a   to the job queue.

Added to the job queue when a page is marked for translation.

MessageUpdateJob
Updates the translation unit pages with the new translation text.

TranslateRenderJob
When a page is marked for translation, s are created for each existing translation pages. They update the translation pages with the latest content of page that was marked for translation.

When a section is translated, a  is created to update the translation page for the language in which the section was translated.


 * Added to the job queue when a section is saved.
 * Added to the job queue when a page is marked for translation.

MessageIndexRebuildJob
Used to rebuild the  with information regarding the latest page marked for translation. De-duplication is in place for this job to ensure that only once instance of this job is present in the job queue at any given time.

Added to the job queue by when a page is marked for translation.

MessageGroupStatesUpdaterJob
Handles automatic state changes for message groups for a specific language.

Added to the job queue when a section is saved.