Extension:Translate

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Translate Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page, Locale, API
Description	Enables in-wiki translation and proofreading
Author(s)	Niklas Laxström, Siebrand Mazeland and others
Last version	Dated snapshots from time to time
MediaWiki	1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23alpha
Composer	mediawiki/translate
License	GPL 2.0 or later
Download	Included in Language Extension Bundle User documentation Change log and code
Example	Translatewiki.net – or try how to translate a page now
Check usage and version matrix; code metrics
Bugs: list open list all report

The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every kind of text. It's used especially to translate software and to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.

Features

The Translate extension has many features specifically targeted to translators, while making back-end integration with actual source code as easy as possible. Meanwhile, everything runs inside MediaWiki, which allows users an almost endless degree of freedom for communication and self-organization.

Features include:

• Structured wiki content page translation.
• In-wiki localisation and exporting of software interface messages (or just about anything).
• AJAX enabled web-based translation and proofreading in supported browsers (new "TUX" interface since March 2013), as well as gettext based export and import for off-line translation.
• Various aids to make the job of translators easier:
  • display of translations in globally defined other languages, optionally expanded with user defined languages;
  • collaborative editing of documentation of the use and context of messages;
  • translation memory and machine translation with external tools (tmserver, Apertium, Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate);
  • display of the latest change in the source message;
  • warnings about common mistakes like parameters that are not used.
• Pre-made modules for various open source products you can use as an example.
  • Support for various formats including: PHP, Java properties, Gettext, YAML and AndroidXml (see full FFS list and File format support).
• A versatile plug-in system to make it easy to add new projects as a message group.
• Various statistics (requires PHPlot for graphics):
  • translation completion percentages for all message groups in all supported languages;
  • translation completion percentages in all supported languages for any supported message group;
  • tool for making activity graphs for spans of time. Can display either number of edits or active users daily or hourly and includes many filters;
  • cloud overview of active languages and translators.

 

Making Multilingual Wikis a Reality: this presentation shows how the Translate extension can make a wiki truly multilingual, based on the experience of KDE UserBase wiki.

 

Niklas Laxström, Translating the wiki way: Simple, fast, fun, Wikimania 2012 (slides available).

Translate extension, due to its large user base, is confirmed to be compatible with all reasonably recent browsers, except some minor (style) glitches which are quickly fixed.

Support and documentation

Translate extension is using continuous development model, which means we are not doing any releases. You should get the latest version from git and update from time to time to get new features and bug fixes. The core functionality is pretty stable, but there may be bigger changes from time to time. We might start doing actual releases if there is enough interest.

• See Installation
• See Configuration
• See User documentation – includes tutorials
• Live support at #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel at Freenode (best times are at European days and evenings)
• Code documentation
• Please report all issues and feature requests in the issue tracker

Translate extension was originally developed by User:Nikerabbit; many other users, like User:Raymond, User:SPQRobin and the Wikimedia Language Engineering team, have contributed to its code and documentation. It is maintained by User:Nikerabbit and User:Siebrand.

Prominent users of the Translate extension

• http://translatewiki.net – The biggest wiki-based site and community for translation of the interface of open source software.
• http://userbase.kde.org – Documentation wiki for KDE project which uses the page translation feature extensively.
• http://meta.wikimedia.org — Translates wiki content and uses the group states feature. Translation and translation review is enabled almost for all users of the wiki.

See also

• Extension:TranslationNotifications — an extension to facilitate communication with translators.

How to contribute

• Translate this extension at translatewiki.net
• Open bugs and feature requests
• More open bugs and feature requests at translatewiki.net
• Proofread and translate the documentation of Translate extension

Recent changes

Merge "Added CSS to existing selector: preserve whitespace in review mode"

Merge "Added CSS to existing selector: preserve whitespace in review mode"

— 2014-01-22 05:50:51

Added CSS to existing selector: preserve whitespace in review mode

Added CSS to existing selector: preserve whitespace in review mode

In review mode, whitespace was not preserved: newlines were
being displayed as single spaces, messing up messages.

— 2014-01-21 23:28:19

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Change-Id: <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,I14063dd88364ae98a6de2c167f5625d8dd21a7a5,n,z">I14063dd88...

— 2014-01-21 19:54:13

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Change-Id: <a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,I4573cd74f9c2011d2750c7de490fedf1f61fb5cd,n,z">I4573cd74f...

— 2014-01-20 20:27:39

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

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— 2014-01-19 20:20:43

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

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