Extension:Translate/ml

The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every kind of text. It's used especially to translate software and to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.

Features
The Translate extension has many features specifically targeted to translators, while making back-end integration with actual source code as easy as possible. Meanwhile, everything runs inside MediaWiki, which allows users an almost endless degree of freedom for communication and self-organization.

Features include:

Can display either number of edits or active users daily or hourly and includes many filters;
 * Structured wiki content page translation.
 * In-wiki localisation and exporting of software interface messages (or just about anything).
 * Web-based translation and proofreading interface, as well as gettext based export and import for off-line translation.
 * Various aids to make the job of translators easier:
 * display of translations in globally defined other languages, optionally expanded with user defined languages;
 * collaborative editing of documentation of the use and context of messages;
 * translation memory and machine translation with external tools (Apertium, Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate);
 * display of the latest change in the source message;
 * warnings about common mistakes like parameters that are not used.
 * Pre-made modules for various open source products you can use as an example.
 * Support for various formats including: PHP, Java properties, Gettext, YAML and AndroidXml (see and File format support).
 * A versatile plug-in system to make it easy to add new projects as a message group.
 * Various statistics:
 * translation completion percentages for all message groups in all supported languages;
 * translation completion percentages in all supported languages for any supported message group;
 * tool for making activity graphs for spans of time.
 * cloud overview of active languages and translators.

Translate extension, due to its large user base, is confirmed to be compatible with all reasonably recent browsers, except some minor (style) glitches which are quickly fixed.

Support and documentation

 * See Installation
 * See Configuration
 * See User documentation — includes tutorials
 * See Getting started with Translate extension development
 * Live support at #translatewiki IRC channel at Libera Chat (best times are at European days and evenings)
 * Please report all issues and feature requests in the issue tracker

Translate extension was originally developed by User:Nikerabbit; many other users, like User:Raymond, User:SPQRobin and the Wikimedia Language team, have contributed to its code and documentation. It is maintained by User:Nikerabbit and User:Siebrand.

Prominent users of the Translate extension

 * https://translatewiki.net — The biggest wiki-based site and community for translation of the interface of open source software.
 * https://userbase.kde.org — Documentation wiki for the KDE project which uses the page translation feature extensively.
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org — Translates wiki content and uses the group states feature. Translation and translation review is enabled almost for all users of the wiki.
 * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/

See more at translatewiki.net.

Testimonials
Tom Hutchison of Joomla:

How to contribute

 * Translate this extension at translatewiki.net
 * Open bugs and feature requests
 * More open bugs and feature requests at translatewiki.net
 * Proofread and translate the documentation of Translate extension