Issue tracker: #MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Extension:Translate/en

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Translate
Release status: stable
File:Translate manual - Page example - 19. Documentation.png
Implementation Special page , Locale , API , Parser function
Description Enables in-wiki translation and proofreading
Author(s) Niklas Laxström, Siebrand Mazeland and others
Compatibility policy Master maintains backward compatibility.
MediaWiki
Composer mediawiki/translate
Tables revtag
translate_groupreviews
translate_groupstats
translate_messageindex
translate_metadata
translate_reviews
translate_sections
translate_stash
translate_tms
translate_tmt
translate_tmf
translate_cache
translate_translatable_bundles
License No license specified
Download Included in Language Extension Bundle
<translate> Download extension</translate>
<translate> Git</translate> [?]:

User documentation
<translate> Changelog</translate>
Help Help:Extension:Translate/en
Example Translatewiki.net – or try how to translate a page now
Hooks provided
Quarterly downloads Lua error in Module:Extension at line 172: bad argument #1 to 'inNamespace' (unrecognized namespace name 'skin').
Public wikis using Lua error in Module:Extension at line 172: bad argument #1 to 'inNamespace' (unrecognized namespace name 'skin').
Translate the Translate extension
Issues Open tasks · Report a bug
<translate> Documentation for <tvar|ext>Extension:Translate </></translate>

<translate> Translators</translate> (<translate> main help page</translate> )

<translate> Translation administrators</translate>

<translate> Sysadmins and developers</translate>

<translate> Translate this template</translate>

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).
  • Web-based translation and proofreading interface, 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 (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.
  • A versatile plug-in system to make it easy to add new projects as a message group.
  • Various statistics:
    • 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.

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.

  • Making Multilingual Wikis a Reality - Niklas Laxström and Claus Christensen.ogv

    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.

  • Translating the wiki way.webm

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

Support and documentation

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

Prominent users of the Translate extension

See more at notable uses of translatewiki.net on Wikipedia.

Testimonials

Tom Hutchison of Joomla:

The Translate extension allows for connection to a translation service and can auto fill the translation for you. At the same time a translator can make adjustments so you're not creating lots of pages with inaccurate translations.

That's ok if they are on different continents. That is actually a plus because work is getting done 24 hours a day. What they need is a support group chat for each other. They would all be able to read English if they are translating right? Teach a few simple wiki markup such as links and what to do with categories. Then they help others who in turn help others. We have over 40 in a chat who help each other and have fun at the same time. And they were all scared of the wiki but couldn't believe how easy it was once they started. They are actually waiting on me for more translations to do because I can't keep up with them. I know there is only 1 translating this language or that language. We have that too. One person is doing Swahili while another one is working on Japanese. Also, you mark pages for translation. You control whether to include templates or exclude variables in template calls.

See also

Not to be confused with:

How to contribute

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