Topic on Extension talk:Translate

Some plans yes, not very active. It is a question of MediaWiki core rather than Translate.

I am starting a multilingual environment that will have mainly 4 languages. The problem is that the language that will have the most content is Arabic, and my aim is to get as much content translated to the other languages.

When I tried the Translate extension, it worked, but having the categories names in Arabic then "/en" and "/fr" is not practical as non Arabic speakers will find it impossible to understand.

I checked several forums and read that there are steps in the pipeline to rectify this. However, I can't find enough information about this on the Extension official page.

I am trying to start from a page like this and reach an end result like this, where page title and category names are translated to the article language.

Is this likely to be an option soon, or I need to setup a family of wikis that share the same resources like this Mediawiki manual?

@Nikerabbit

Thanks for asking!

Due to possible naming conflicts, it's not a good idea to translate the actual page titles, unless you disambiguate them with a language code anyway.

But what you can do is to use the feature to translate the (category) page title. This does not affect the URL of the page, nor any links to that page. However, there are feature requests for MediaWiki core to use this translated title in links, including the category list at the bottom of the pages. It is not clear, though, when these will happen. I believe the features are not controversial, but some performance concerns must be taken into account while implementing them.

Some links:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/305991/
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26139
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/68936/