Thanks for bringing this up. The composition of the "most used messages" group is indeed an issue, but it's distinct. Very briefly, It's good that it's data-driven, but it's a bit *too* data-driven, and it needs some adjustment.
I have a plan to improve the "most used" group as well. This plan is mostly in my head at the moment, but I'll document it in writing soon, hopefully in the next few days.
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2018-03-19 16:31 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, We currently want the "most used" messages to be localised. They are the most visible messages but that does not mean that they are the most important for understanding a user interface. When your work means that those messages that ordinary readers and editors do not see or need are in separate groups from the ones they do need, we have a situation where I find that we no longer need the localisation of all messages and have a potential replacement for the "most used" messages.. Thanks, GerardM
On 19 March 2018 at 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
The topic of the heavy burden of having to translate MediaWiki user interface at translatewiki was discussed several times.
In an attempt to address this problem somewhat, I wrote these proposals: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190047 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167762
Briefly, the suggestion is to split the extremely long list of translatable messages in MediaWiki core and extensions into several groups, so that the rarer and more technical messages won't confuse translators and make them work more slowly or give up.
Actually, I already mentioned T167762, the proposal to split core into several groups on this mailing list once, and it didn't generate a lot of discussion ;)
In any case, if there are no significant objections, I plan to start implementing this some time soon, and perhaps complete it by the time of the Barcelona Hackathon in May.
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