Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary

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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 map>wikt:map#Verb|maps the MediaWiki language codes to their equivalents in the translation file names in other projects way of hiding translatable pages to discourage further translation the operation that undoes discouraging short for file format support. These modules handle reading and writing of files in various formats the priority languages, when translations to other languages, are disabled by a translation administrator translation that needs updating or fixing the act of marking translations fuzzy translations of the definition in helper languages are shown in the translation editor ; insertable : piece of text in the translatable text, such as 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 the ISO 639 code of the language, like   for English the act of marking a message (a translation) as good, in the translation review feature 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; happens after the tagging the smallest translation unit; each translation of a message has its own page in the wiki translation tips and info about the context of the message for translators collection of messages that belong together; translators always work on a message group long wikitext snippet shown in Special:Translate and other places 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.   short human readable name of the message group in the code, the MessageHandle class wraps around title class with useful functions the mapping from translation unit identifiers to the message groups they belong to the unique name of the message, which corresponds to its page title in the wiki (for instance, "mainpage" for MediaWiki:Mainpage) 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 a message which normally is not translated, but can be translated if the language needs it; it's normally ignored by the special pages (not counted as untranslated) and can be included/listed by selecting the appropriate options translation which needs updating because its source text has changed 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. the most wanted translations provided by the translation administrator see message documentation 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 the act of splitting the text into translation units by the placement of translate tags and empty lines inside translate tags the language from which content is translated (only one in the Translate extension so far) the page under which the translatable page source resides (the base page all the translation pages are subpages of) the current condition of the message group, as defined in the workflow the act of placing translation tags in the translatable page source; part of the preparation for page translation option in Special:Translate (whether in a dropdown, radio button or tab selection), like view all messages, or review translations 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 the full text of the translatable page, including translation tags, from which the translation page template and all the translation units are extracted person who has access to page translation features and knows how to prepare and mark pages for translation the collection of suggestions, message documentation, helper languages and other information besides the message definition the javascript based editor where translation happens the system which remembers previous translations of the same or similar words and provides suggestions translated version of translatable page residing as subpage of the translatable page the structure of a translatable page, that is the part which is not translated and is used in all translation pages the feature provided for proofreading translations and marking them as checked; see assurance>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Quality_assurance|quality assurance   tags, the most important translation tags (see) the special markers used to give instructions to the Translate extension about translatable pages the smallest individually tracked component of translatable pages: the page is divided into paragraph-sized translation units and each unit is a message the name of the translation unit, from which the corresponding message identifier derives (since March 2013, can only be an incremental integer) a marker associated to a translation unit in translatable page source, which contains the translation unit identifier a page which contains the translation of a translation unit to a particular language
 * aggregate message group (aggregate group) :
 * code map :
 * discouraging :
 * encouraging :
 * FFS :
 * forced priority languages :
 * fuzzy :
 * fuzzying :
 * helper language :
 * language code :
 * mark as reviewed (review) :
 * mark for translation (re-mark for translation) :
 * message :
 * message documentation :
 * message group :
 * message group description :
 * message group id :
 * message group label :
 * message handle :
 * message index :
 * message key (message identifier, message name) :
 * message namespace :
 * optional message :
 * outdated translation :
 * primary message group :
 * priority languages :
 * qqq :
 * secondary message group :
 * segmentation :
 * source language :
 * source page (original page) :
 * stash (translation stash): A place of temporary storage of translations which will then be automatically discarded. Can be translated similar to "sandbox" or similar.
 * state :
 * tagging :
 * task :
 * translatable page :
 * translatable page source :
 * translation administrator :
 * translation aids :
 * translation editor :
 * translation memory :
 * translation page (translated page, translation subpage) :
 * translation page template (translation template, page template, translatable page template) :
 * translation review :
 * translate tags :
 * translation tags :
 * translation unit :
 * translation unit identifier (unit identifier, translation unit page title) :
 * translation unit marker (unit marker) :
 * translation unit page (unit page) :
 * can be accessed using Translations:Page/Unit no/Language code eg- Translations:Main Page/1/de

the text of a translation unit in the source languages 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 the states a message group can be in, following the workflow (see)
 * translation unit source (unit source) :
 * workflow :
 * workflow states (message group workflow states) :