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.com> wrote:
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%2Fmediawiki-defines.txt

  -Niklas


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