done; solved creating a subpage.
if I want to modify a FR string in the template data of a translatable template (ex: Template:Archived_extension, I do that opening the root version of the page in english. But this lead to flag this page has been modified and is good for new translation. This has 2 consequences : 1. there is nothing more to translate 2.it impacts other languages which have nothing to do.
Am I wrong ?
Christian FR (talk) 11:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
One solution as used by Shirayuki here below is to move the template data section in the related subpage /doc and invoke it fom the main which contains the code of the template. This separates the items to be translated, from others.
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Archived_extension&diff=3747291&oldid=3747225
I think Shirayuki’s solution is probably the best one. IMO it’s a feature that the page has to be marked for translation after all changes, even if they don’t affect actual translatable text—changing sometimes several dozens of translations can cause considerable disruption if it’s done by an inexperienced user (or a vandal), and it also takes up server resources to update all translations (these updates also pollute recent changes). Given that, moving not translated parts to a subpage looks a quite good solution (using a subpage also causes that there’s no need to reparse all pages that use the template).
