Extension:Translate
Documentation for Extension:Translate
Translators (main help page )
- How to translate
- Best practices
- Statistics and reporting
- Quality assurance
- Message group states
- Offline translation
- Glossary
Translation administrators
- How to prepare a page for translation
- Page translation administration
- Unstructured element translation
- Group management
- Move translatable page
Sysadmins and developers
The Translate extension maks MediaWiki ae feckfu tuil tae owerset aw kynd o tex. It's uised especialie tae owerset saffware n tae manage monieleidic wikis in ae sensible waa.
Featurs
The Translate extension haes monie featurs specifically tairgetit tae owerseters, while makin back-end integration wi the actual soorce code aes easie aes possible. Meanwhile, awthing rins inside MediaWiki, this allous uisers aen awmaist endless degree o freedom fer communication n sel-organisation.
Featurs incluid:
- Structurt wiki content page owersetin.
- In-wiki localisation n exportin o saffware interface messages (or juist aboot oniething).
- AJAX enabled wab-based owersetin n pruifreadin in supportit brousers (new "TUX" interface sin Mairch 2013), aes weel aes gettext based export n import fer aff-line owersetin.
- Sindrie aids tae mak the job o owerseters easier:
- displey o owersets in globalie defined ither leids, optionlie expaundit wi uiser defined leids;
- collaborateeve eeditin o documentation o the uiss n contex o messages;
- owersetin memrie n machine owersetin wi ootby tuils (Apertium, Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate);
- displey o the hainmaist chynge in the soorce message;
- wairnishmants aneatt common mistaks lik boundins that'r no uised.
- Pre-makit modules fer sindrie apen soorce waurks that ye can uise aes aen example.
- Support fer sindrie formats incluidin: PHP, Java properties, Gettext, YAML n AndroidXml (see full FFS list n File format support).
- Ae versatile plug-in system tae mak it easie tae eik new waurks aes ae message groop.
- Sindrie stateestics (needs PHPlot fer grapheecs):
- owersetment compleation percentages fer aw message groops in aw supportit leids;
- owersetment compleation percentages in aw supportit leids fer onie supportit message groop;
- tuil fer makin acteevitie graphs fer spans o time. Can display either number of edits or active users daily or hourly and includes many filters;
- clood luikower o acteeve leids n owerseters.
Translate extension, cause o its muckle uiser base, is confirmed tae be compatible wi aw reasonablie recynt brousers, except fer some wee (style) glitches that ar quicklie fixt.
Makin Monieleidic Wikis ae Realitie: this presentation shaws hou the Translate extension can mak ae wiki trulie monileidic, based oan the experience o KDE UserBase wiki.
Niklas Laxström, Owersetin the wiki waa: Simple, fast, fun, Wikimania 2012 (slides available).
Support n documentation
- See Instawation
- See Confeeguration
- See Uiser documentation — incluids teachin material
- Live support at #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel at Freenode (the best times ar at European days n gloamins)
- Please report aw issues n featur requests in the eessue tracker
Translate extension wis oreegonlie deveelopt bi User:Nikerabbit; monie ither uisers, lik User:Raymond, User:SPQRobin n the Wikimedia Leid team, hae contreebutit tae its code n documentation. It's maintained bi User:Nikerabbit n User:Siebrand.
Prominant uisers o the Translate extension
- https://translatewiki.net — The mucklest wiki-based steid n communitie fer the owersetin o the interface o apen soorce saffware.
- https://userbase.kde.org — Documentation wiki fer KDE waurk that uises the page owersetin featur quite ae bit.
- https://meta.wikimedia.org — Owersets wiki content n uises the groop states featur. Owrsetin n owersetin luikower is enabled fer awmaist aw uisers o the wiki.
See mair at Wikipedia:translatewiki.net#Notable uses.
Testimonials
Tom Hutchison o Joomla:
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Relatit pages
- Extension:TranslationNotifications – aen extension tae faceelitate communication wi owerseters.
Not to be confused with:
- Extension:ContentTranslation – used for one-off translation of wiki pages from one language to another.
- Extension:TranslateWiki
Hou tae contreebute
- Owerset this extension at translatewiki.net
- Apen bugs n featur requests
- Mair apen bugs n featur requests at translatewiki.net
- Pruifread n owerset the documentation o Translate extension
![]() | This extension is being used on one or more Wikimedia projects. This probably means that the extension is stable and works well enough to be used by such high-traffic websites. Look for this extension's name in Wikimedia's CommonSettings.php and InitialiseSettings.php configuration files to see where it's installed. A full list of the extensions installed on a particular wiki can be seen on the wiki's Special:Version page. |
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