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:

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.