That syntax is exactly what the Arabic translator wanted to use; but the error message says that for Arabic you need an extra "|zero=" parameter; unfortunately that syntax does not explicitly pass the numeric value, and just assumes a simpler singular vs. plural scheme for English-like plurals, and this does not work for Arabic which expects more than 2 plural forms and insists in having other forms for "zero", "two", and "few".
That early "simplified" syntax, suitable for Germanic and Romance languages (as well as East Asian languages having just 1) should be deprecated, does not work for languages having more than 2 forms (including Arabic, or most Slavic and Celtic languages); and there's also still no way to allow several forms to share the result value (so parameter values need to be duplicated for each expected plural form, there's no support for e.g. "|zero,two,few="). That old syntax is inherited from Gettext (where there was no explicit parameter to indicate which "variable" contains the actual discriminating value to test), forcing translation projects to create separate translation units for additional plural forms, and specific code in the app (with quirks to ensure that translation units are distinct in the source text usually in English, sometimes in Chinese in various projects). There's no easy solution: the MediaWiki syntax for plurals (and the CLDR syntax, or other modern i18n frameworks for Java, C#, Rust, etc...) are more suitable and capable than the limited Gettext syntax designed with Germanic, Romance and East Asian assumptions (these old designs existed long before CLDR started to document what was really needed for Semitic, Slavic and Celtic languages, even if they are very "popular" and heavily used like Arabic, Russian or Ukrainian). Projects built with old Gettext assumptions should really think about redesigning their i18n model and support libraries) Le sam. 8 nov. 2025 à 01:27, Cooltey Feng <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Haytham Abulela Aly, > > Thank you for your contribution! > > If you see a warning message about the plural forms, please make sure the > plural template format is correct. > > The valid usage of a {{PLURAL}} would be like: > {{PLURAL|one=article|%1$d articles}} > > For more examples of correctly using the {{PLURA}} format, please see the > wiki page here: > https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Template:PLURAL > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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