Help:Extension:Translate/de



The Translate extension enhances MediaWiki with essential features needed to do translation work. It can be used to translate the content pages, the interface of the wiki and even other software products, as it is used at translatewiki.net. The Translate extension comes with an easy to use translation interface and allows to separate the content structure from the content language to be translated, showing only the translatable text to translators by splitting the content into manageable units. Each unit is automatically tracked for changes, and translators immediately see what needs updating on a specific page or throughout the wiki.

Die Übersetzungserweiterung wird eingesetzt, um die Benutzeroberfläche von MediaWiki sowie andere Softwareprojekte mit translatewiki.net von Hunderten von Übersetzern jeden Monat zu übersetzen. Auf userbase.kde.org wird es verwendet, um fast eintausend Inhaltsseiten mit Benutzer-Dokumentation zu übersetzen. Es ist leicht mit der Übersetzungserweiterung zu starten, aber gleichzeitig skaliert es auch auf und bietet erweiterte Berichterstattung, Überprüfung und Arbeitsschritt-Funktionalitäten.

Funktionen


Schnittstelle: Das Hauptmerkmal der Übersetzungs-Erweiterung ist eine einfache, aber funktionale Übersetzungs-Schnittstelle. Neben der wesentlichen Informationen wie Nachrichten-Definition und Dokumentation, können Sie auch Übersetzungen in anderen Sprachen ansehen. Wenn eine Definition geändert wurde, sehen Sie die Änderungen. Die Erweiterung kommt mit einigen eingebauten Kontrollen, die mit häufigen Fehlern wie unausgeglichene Klammern und unbenutzte Variablen helfen können. Abhängig von der Konfiguration, gibt es auch Vorschläge vom Übersetzungsspeicher und maschinelle Übersetzungs-Dienstleistungen wie diejenigen von Google Übersetzer, Microsofts Bing Übersetzer und von Apertium.

The usability of the translation interface is enhanced with JavaScript and AJAX. The backend provides WebAPIs than can be used in mobile interfaces or interfaces tailored to specific kind of content. It is also possible to export messages for translation in other off-line and on-line tools that accept the Gettext po file format.

Nachrichtengruppen und Aufgaben: Viele der Funktionen wurden um zwei Basiskonzepte herum aufgebaut: Nachrichtengruppen und Aufgaben.

A message group represents a collection of messages. One content page would be one message group, where, in the simplest form, each paragraph would be one message in that group. Messages used in each MediaWiki extension form a message group on translatewiki.net – a few of the largest extensions have multiple groups. You can also make a group of groups, like All newsletters or All Translate extension messages. Many of the statistics and the tasks work on the message group basis.

The tasks, or in other words different listings of messages in a message group, facilitate different use cases. Normally a translator gets a list of all untranslated messages in a chosen message group, but there are tasks where you can review messages or just get a list of all messages, translated or not.



Auswertung und Statistiken: Die Erweiterung hat umfangreiche Berichtsfunktionen, die von der Ansicht unübersetzter Nachrichten in einer bestimmten Sprache über alle Nachrichtengruppen hinweg bis hin zu Übersetzerlisten mit ihrem Aktivitätsgrad nach Sprache reicht.

Content translation: If you have ever tried to translate content in MediaWiki without any tools, you know it does not scale. The translated versions get out of date and there is no way to track changes to the master page, so there are many half-translated and outdated translations without a clear overview of the overall status. Translators often feel discouraged when they can not work with small manageable pieces of text. Translators don't find what to work on or what needs updating. The users also get confused by outdated information.

This is all solved with the Translate extension and its page translation feature. It adds a bit of overhead to the pages that need translation, but the benefits far outweigh this. Essentially you only need to mark the parts of the page that need translation. The extension then splits such parts into paragraph sized units and creates a message group for them. After that translators can use all the features described above. In addition you can easily add a language bar with the tag or have links automatically go to the user's preferred language version (only) when it exists, by using links of the form Special:MyLanguage/Pagename.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Anleitung „Wie richte ich eine Inhaltsseite für eine Übersetzung ein“ und in der ausführlichen Dokumentation der Seitenübersetzungsfunktion.

Entwickler: Die Erweiterung ist erhältlich mit eingebauter Unterstützung für viele übliche Übersetzungsdateiformate wie Java-Properties-Dateien und Gettext-po-Dateien. Sie hat ein umfangreiches Instrumentarium, sowohl im Wiki als auch auf der Kommandozeile, um damit effizient Übersetzungen zu im- und exportieren.

Anwendungsfälle
You can translate almost anything with the Translate extension. Naturally there are specialized tools for translation of certain kind of content like video subtitles, that are better done with those tools, but in general Translate performs very well with any kind of text that can be split into messages with length ranging from one word up to one large paragraph. Longer messages become unwieldy to translate and are just harder to work with.

The three primary use cases that the Translate extension supports are content translation, local interface translation and software translation. All of them are covered in the following sections, with links to tutorials and to reference documentation or in-depth topical help where available. Of the three use cases the interface translation has been utilized the least.

Übersetzung von Inhalt


Most wikis have content they would like to be available in multiple languages. Whether just a few or hundreds of pages, it doesn't matter. In order to prevent wasting translator's time, pages should be marked for translation only when they are reasonably stable. Each change that is made afterwards can affect tens or hundreds of old translations, and the time needed to update them adds up. Especially with volunteer translators, you should be aware of this aspect, and respect the time they spend making translations and updates, avoiding unnecessary work. If you use the Translate extension to translate pages, you are already well on your way to using the translator time available in the most effective and efficient way.

The way the Translate extension splits up a page into paragraph sized units does not leave too much freedom for translators to change the content. This is usually a good thing and is ideal where continuity and consistency of content across languages is desired. It can be worked around, but in principle this way of doing translations is not generally suitable, for example, for Wikipedia articles, which usually are totally independent of each other. Even if they originally start as a translation from a different language, they usually begin living their own independent life from the original version. With Translate, the original page is always the main version, and new content cannot be developed in translated versions.

With these limitations in mind there are still plenty of cases where this feature is a perfect match. Most, if not all, user documentation falls into this category as well as news-like content that does not change once written. If you have the Translate extension already installed and access rights configured, try creating a page and wrapping the whole text inside  and follow the links, or follow the tutorial How to prepare a page for translation.

Lokale Übersetzung der Benutzeroberfläche in mehrsprachigen Wikis
One thing almost every wiki has customized is the sidebar. It is possible to create a message group for the custom sidebar messages and also for other local interface customisations.

One interesting expansion is the multilingual pages or templates built with the magic word. The translatewiki.net main page and some Wikimedia Commons templates are good examples of this. The magic word is an alternative to the content translation feature and it is more suitable to mark-up heavy pages just like the translatewiki.net main page. Another nice feature is that the language of the page automatically follows the user interface language, so there is no need for a language bar, although you might want to have an interface language selector instead.

Setting this up is currently a bit more complicated than content translation and needs software configuration, but it is all covered in the tutorial How to make an interface message group.

Software-Übersetzung
The Translate extension is a good fit for translating software interface messages. At translatewiki.net, it is used to translate tens of software products from games to web applications. The Translate extension supports reading and updating translations from and to common formats used in web development including Java properties, Gettext and Yaml files.

Change tracking is also available for externally tracked files, because internally the extension uses a cached derivative version of the localisation files where the source text and its translations are stored, instead of using them directly in their original format. Translation administrators can either use the web interface or a command line interface to check new message definitions and "fuzzy" (request update of) translations when they need updating. This works regardless of the underlying file format or version control system (if any).

With simple command line tools, translation administrators can easily import even a large set of existing translations and with just one command they can export all translations in the correct format and in the correct directory structure. You can export directly to your VCS repository checkout, where you can easily commit changes and new files.

für Übersetzer und Übersetzungsadministratoren

 * How to translate [Tutorial]
 * Translation best practices
 * Statistics and reporting
 * Quality assurance
 * Message group states
 * Off-line translation
 * [In progress] Glossary

Für Übersetzungsadministratoren

 * How to prepare a page for translation [Tutorial]
 * Page translation administration
 * Interface message groups (localised sidebar, main page and templates) [Tutorial]
 * [In progress] Message group management
 * YAML configuration format
 * How to write YAML configuration for file based message groups [Tutorial]

Referenzdokumente für Entwickler

 * Installation
 * Configuration
 * [In progress] Translate explained for developers
 * Hooks
 * [In progress] Message groups
 * [In progress] File format support
 * Translation aids
 * [Unwritten] Web API
 * Translation memories

Related

 * Translation notifications
 * Localisation/Tutorial: General localisation tutorial for developers, for use at hackathons & trainings
 * Extension:TranslateSvg: Adds support for translating SVG files
 * Universal Language Selector: Provides webfonts and input methods

Todo

 * Implementation on Meta: m:Meta:Translate extension.
 * See translate-doc for specific tasks.