Topic on Help talk:Extension:Translate

I have this on my page:

[[Kategorie:Beispiele{{#translation:}}|Beispiele]]

and I get

[[Kategorie:Beispiele/en]]

[[Kategorie:Beispiele{{#translation:}}|<translate>Beispiele</translate>]]

does help at all since the result is the same as above. However since I cannot expect English speaking people to know what "Beispiele" means the only way is seems to label the category.

This may be a noob question. I am sure there is a way but I currently do not get it. This example does not cover it so I am a bit lost.

Currently, as far as I know, MediaWiki does not support changing category names from what they actually are. There is a task requesting to support this: task T26139.

@Nikerabbit : has plans changed on this task by any chance ? Because in fact this is what I request in my comment below.

I am not sure why you are asking me. My priorities are currently elsewhere.

Sorry, I did ask because I thought you were in charge of this task.

I will wait to see it resolved or - better! - try to solve it myself when I get familiar with MediaWiki code.

Anyway you are always of good advice, and you helped me a lot. Thank you !

Ouch, admittedly I have never labeled a category differently. I took it for granted that this is possible. I guess this will be a nice feature with regard to content translation. Thanks a lot for pointing to the issue.

Just an idea: one could try to transclude the translated content of the page display title of the corresponding Translation name space page:

{{#ifexist: {{Translations:Kategorie:Beispiel/Page display title{{#translation:}}}}<!-- 
then transclucde content via {{…}}
-->|{{Translations:Kategorie:Beispiel/Page display title{{#translation:}}}}<!-- 
else
-->|Kategorie:Beispiel{{#translation:}}
}}

… or in general with the magic word {{FULLPAGENAME}}:

{{#ifexist: {{Translations:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Page display title{{#translation:}}}}<!-- 
then-->|{{Translations:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Page display title{{#translation:}}}}<!-- 
else-->|{{FULLPAGENAME}}{{#translation:}}
}}

I just realized (for the record so to say) that the page I’m testing in #ifexist: must be coded correctly as Translations:… and not as page transclusion {{Translations:…}}:

{{#ifexist: Translations:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Page display title{{translation:}}<!-- 
then -->|{{Translations:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Page display title{{translation:}}}}<!-- 
else -->|{{FULLPAGENAME}}
}}

Thanks for your suggestion. The idea I came up with is to do

<translate>Categories:</translate> [[:Category:General{{#translation:}}|<translate>General</translate>]]

[[Category:General{{|translation:}}]]

and add the HIDDENCAT behaviour switch to "Category:General{{#translation:}}". This is a bit of work depending on how many categories there are as well as make the display of the category link [[:Category:General{{#translation:}}|<translate>General</translate>]] appear as if the added category was never hidden but I quite like it.

Hi,

I came upon this help topic and it helped a lot.

I need to do a slightly different thing than @Kghbln : my goal is to have the translated category name, but point it to the translated link

Like "Catégorie:Blanc" displays "Catégorie:White" but points to "Catégorie:Blanc/en"