Manual:Pywikibot/i18n conversion

Adapting scripts to translatewiki
Sun Jan 16 13:33:11 UTC 2011

Hello all,

After my last mail, you have of course set up a working rewrite development environment and were wondering how to spread TW integration like a virus through the scripts/ directory. So, how to do it:

As you will notice, there is now a i18n/ directory inside the scripts/ directory. This directory contains all files exported from TranslateWiki. The script name defines which TW keys are defined in the file, so i18n/category.py contains category-* (category-was-moved, category-also-in, etc). These are the translations that before were in scripts/category.py.

Adapting scripts to translatewiki consists of four parts: * Defining TW keys for translations * Reading in translations and outputting them into the TW format * Removing translations from script file * Adding 'from pywikibot import i18n' and adapting all/most pywikibot.translate entries with i18n.twtranslate.

To use isbn.py as an example. There is only one message (only showing german and english):
 * (1) Defining TW keys*

msg = { 'de': 'Bot: Formatiere ISBN', 'en': 'Robot: Formatting ISBN', }

For TW, we define this message as isbn-formatting.

Sometimes pywikibot.translate is used for site- or language-specific configuration. Don't move those to translatewiki files (yet).

Although it is possible to do the isbn example by hand, I'll use a script that can easily be adapted for a larger number of messages. Don't forget to  your virtualenv! The script is available at http://pastebin.com/u2XrKt5b (too long to paste in this e-mail)
 * (2) Reading in translations and outputting them into the TW format*

For other scripts, you have to adapt at least lines 2, 6 and 12. Line 12 has a list of tuples (old dict, translatewiki key). If the messages have (one or more) parameters, you should change them to *named parameters*, so translators can move them around in the message. See lines 15 and 16 for an example of how to do this.

Running this script gives you a new file, i18n/isbn.py

(pwbde)/rewrite/scripts$ python >>> from pywikibot import i18n >>> i18n.twtranslate("de", "isbn-formatting") u'Bot: Formatiere ISBN'
 * Test* the translation:

hurrah!

Use a sledgehammer, jackhammer or scalpel. Whatever works for you. In the case of isbn.py, lines 49 to 61.
 * (3) Removing translations from the script file*

-from pywikibot import pagegenerators +from pywikibot import pagegenerators, i18n
 * (4a) Add from pywikibot import i18n*

Search for pywikibot.translate. Change the following: to
 * (4b) Adapting all/most pywikibot.translate entries*

With *'tw-key-for-msg'* referring to the tw key you thought up for *msg*, and *'param_1'* and *'param_2'* (the dictionary keys) referring to the *named parameters* you introduced in step 2.

For isbn.py, this is simpler:

translations!
 * Congratulations! *You have adapted a script to use translatewiki

Of course, before committing, *test* the script:

And, as a last step, *commit* the script (and the translations!) to the svn repository: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/8838

Good luck adapting scripts!

Best regards, Valhallasw 21:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)