Project:Requests/User rights/Epok

User: Epok
I was actively working on french translations these days, and I've encountered a limit on what a user can or can not do. When dealing with translations, the process is limited to translating what's on a page at the day a translation administrator marked the page for translation. When going a little further, i.e., editing the original english page (such as [//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Parser_functions&diff=2536822&oldid=2413461 this edit I made]), you can't translate your own edit until a translation administrator marks the page as translatable again.

This is why I would like to gain the translation administrator right, as I think I may encounter such a limit again in the future. Moreover, I could use this status to help updating translation status on other pages that need such an action.

I also have one question, and I will use this opportunity to ask it: I've encountered different approaches in the way the namespace is translated on the title page item. Two approaches are used: e.g. for a page named Project:Example, one will translate it to Project:Exemple (leave original namespace), while other will translate it to Projet:Exemple (translate namespace). I've been using the second approach, believing that it's better to have a kind of "virtual namespace" according to the language of the page you're reading. Furthermore, it is more like Wikipedia's wikis (even if MediaWiki is not Wikipedia), in which the namespaces are translated. But I may be wrong, and did not find any information on that topic.

Have a nice MWday, Epok (talk) 08:27, 15 August 2017 (UTC)


 * It's ok to translate the namespace (and I agree it's preferable for help pages for instance). If one doesn't want the namespace translated, they can ask the translation administrator to prevent title translation.
 * As a translator you shouldn't normally need to remark pages for translation yourself. I see we now have 394 out of 3413 potentially outdated translatable pages right now, while they used to be very few. Probably the translation administrators have not noticed that Shirayuki has taken a break from his outstanding quick service. :-)
 * Back to your request: do you have any example of pages you marked for translation according to the page translation manual? --Nemo 10:39, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info.
 * I did not mark any page for translation, as this require to be translation administrator. Did you mean tagging? If so, I haven't yet, but I've noticed a few pages which I want to migrate from the old raw translation page to the translation extension.
 * Epok (talk) 10:50, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, we say "prepare for translation" for the operation which includes tagging. Please let me know when you have prepared some such pages for a migration to Translate then. Thanks! --Nemo 11:04, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That's right, I'll do soon. Do you have a specific page in mind that would require being translated? Epok (talk) 11:05, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * No, but Project:Language policy links some suggestions at Project:Language policy/Migration list and the first section of Special:PageTranslation probably contains some pages whose preparation is not complete yet. If you have trouble finding something to do, let me know. Nemo 11:10, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok, enough choice in these pages I think!
 * I'll let you know when I've carried on a preparation.
 * Have a nice MWday, Epok (talk) 11:13, 15 August 2017 (UTC)