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translation: MW shows me the page but paragraphs missing

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Arzoper (talkcontribs)

Translating to ml (Malayalam).

At front-page, and i have signed in. Is page: MediaWiki = https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/mediawiki. And system is:

MediaWiki 1.36.0-wmf.3 (08bcb82)

18:13, 6 August 2020

PHP 7.2.31-1+0~20200514.41+debian9~1.gbpe2a56b+wmf1 (fpm-fcgi)
MariaDB 10.1.43-MariaDB

Two clicks down, from first panel saying “ Set up and… MW “ click at ‘ Download ‘.

There, the “ Download “ page, has a first block saying, “ Download MediaWiki 1.34… “

I wish to translate this page, and see it is done in CH, RU, etc. I click on the ‘ translate ‘ tab.

What come up are various phrases, but the first paras on ‘ tar.gz files; license reqmts; systems reqmts; Warning ‘ are all missing. It goes straight to: “ developers should download from git “

When I click on a) Download MW with the download icon, of course I get actual downloading, NOT the translate phrase I need, and b) on any of the links, a click there takes me to target, NOT the link to be translated.

I was suffering this issue many days ago ( not at 2 clicks down, but just 1 ) on the page of Help:Contents with the 6 panels. There when I click the links, I get to target, and am able to translate the link as well, if memory serves me right.

Malyacko (talkcontribs)

It sounds like you are looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Download&action=edit (not sure why you mention how you went to that page). You can see some templates included there, in the lines {{MediaWiki Introduction}} and {{DownloadMediaWiki}}. You can find these templates at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:MediaWiki_Introduction and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:DownloadMediaWiki . See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion for the general concept.

Pppery (talkcontribs)

If I understand what you are talking about correctly, you need to translate Template:DownloadMediaWiki. I agree that this is confusing, and that template should probably be merged with Download (but doing so without breaking the translations would be a highly non-trivial effort)

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