I added a section "Messages that should not be translated" to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Message_documentation , with this information, plus the standard comments people appened to En, the {{optional}} in Qqq, the system messageTypes.inc file, etc.
These are my observations of the conventions in use, so fix any mistakes!
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.comwrote:
On 21 May 2013 14:13, Nick White nick.white@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have an extension (a skin, actually, but functionally it's exactly the same) which makes use of system messages to allow administrators to add extra content to some areas of wiki pages. So by default the messages are empty, and should never be translated.
You can see this in the Erudite.i18n.php change at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62623/
If your extension/skin is translated at translatewiki.net, you can submit a patch against [1]. It has examples of that (search for ignored). If you are talking about translating somewhere else, it depends how you have configured the message group.
[1] https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/translatewiki.git/HEAD/groups%2FMediaWiki%2Fm...
-Niklas
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