Hi, I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of > enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on > Commons. >
Thanks Guillaume for starting this discussion. > The Translate extension ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate ) is super useful > to translate content; it's already used for translations on Meta, > mediawiki.org and other non-Wikimedia wikis. In my experience, this > extension usually increases the amount of translations and > multilingual content on a given wiki, which Commons would benefit > from. > For my little experience with the way the extension works on Meta, I see how it works to translate single pages, or messages assembled in a single page - this could indeed be very useful for all our multilingual pages (policy, help, etc.) Could the extension can, or be tweaked to, help with our other multilingual content? I can think of: * templates (whether using Autotranslate/Fallback, LangSwitch, or special constructs like {{Technique}}) * file descriptions ? * POTD descriptions ? * SiteNotice announcements ? > The UniversalLanguageSelector extension ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector ) > allows users to easily switch the interface language; it also embeds > an interface to enter text in non-Latin languages even if your > keyboard doesn't allow it. > Seems very useful indeed. Just asking: would it play nicely with our AnonymousI18N script? <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:AnonymousI18N.js> Incidently, Rillke has openend a section on [[COM:VPP]] on this. < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VPP#Elaborate_whether_mw:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector_is_suitable_for_Commons> There would probably be some adjustments to make to transition from > the current way we handle multilingual content and interface, but I > don't perceive them as insurmountable. > Yes. Indeed, I wondered above how the Extension would fit with our black magic, but we can certainly think of revamping our magic to benefit from the extensions. -- Jean-Frédéric [[User:Jean-Frédéric]]
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