https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28191
Summary: invite users to translate untranslated messages
Product: MediaWiki
Version: wikimedia-deployment
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
The translations of MediaWiki messages for many languages are not complete.
When the translation is not complete, messages are displayed in the fallback
language (often English), in the same font, same color and same size. If the
user knows the fallback language well, he may hardly notice this, although he
is the one who can translate the message.
It's possible to encourage users to complete the translation. One way to do it
is to put a link saying something like "translate this message" near every
untranslated message. The link should point directly to the message page in
translatewiki.net, the de-facto MediaWiki translation website. Yes, this will
put a lot of those links on the wiki and this may be ugly, but the users can
get rid of them by completing the translation, which they should do anyway.
This link must be also displayed for outdated or broken ("!!FUZZY!!") messages,
and for extensions messages and not just the core.
This is not just a way to encourage people to complete their translations. It
will be actually easier to translate the software this way, because then the
message is seen in context and not in a dry list of strings, as it is in
TranslateWiki now.
One problem with this approach is that the translation is not updated
immediately. It's not terrible, because the way things work now, it will be
updated after a few days, but if someone has a clever way to fix that, it would
be nice.
Another problem is text in special areas such as buttons, links and input box
boilerplate (for example, the word "Search" in the Vector search box). But that
can be handled somehow.
People who like to improve translation may also get the opportunity to enable
such a link for all messages, even translated ones. Something like this exists
on Facebook; it sucks there, but who said we can't do better?
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