Hello, just a note that most Latin-script-writing-system language users might not aware:
Parentheses/punctuation marks and whitespaces do need to be made translatable, especially for Simplified/Traditional-Han-writing-system languages that use full-width parentheses/punctuation marks and don't have whitespaces between words (the "word separator"). Best regards, Winston Sung / Sung Chien-chang / Sung Chienchang On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 13:14 (UTC), Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But wait, there is more. Strings like " [[{{#special:Contributions >> }}/$1|$2]] ([[{{ns:user_talk}}:$1|talk]]) " should not exist at all. >> First, there is absolutely no guidance on what parts should be translated. >> [1] I would guess only "talk", which should be replaced with reusing the >> simple message (aka {{int:talk}}), so nothing to translate. This would save >> the translators the significant amount of time needed to decode the >> message, make assumptions and (not) translate the text. I have some >> more examples, but I'll stop here. >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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