Hi,

Thanks for the round up. It is very helpful for the translators :)

Regards, IRL.

On 5/15/06, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week, but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and renamed members to nmembers for consistency.

I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or removed are welcome.

Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs, Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!

I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three types of problems. First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed. Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash ('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just intended behaviour. Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.

Ignore list: 'sidebar', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'googlesearch', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'metadata-fields', 'catseparator',

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14

Plural support: -'categories1' 'categories'

-'restorelink1' 'restorelink'

-'subcategorycount1' 'subcategorycount' -'categoryarticlecount1' 'categoryarticlecount'

'nbytes' 'ncategories' 'nlinks' 'nmembers' 'nrevisions' 'nviews'

Modified: 'administrators' 'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake) 'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)

Renamed: 'members' to 'nmembers' (see above) -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n@mail.wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n

I think "metadata-fields" should be translated, as it includes text in English. However, "recentchanges-url" should be included in the list.

Also, I think a script lists the messages which shouldn't be translated but are translated will help.

Niklas Laxström wrote:

Hello,

It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week, but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and renamed members to nmembers for consistency.

I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or removed are welcome.

Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs, Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!

I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three types of problems. First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed. Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash ('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just intended behaviour. Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.

Ignore list: 'sidebar', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'googlesearch', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'metadata-fields', 'catseparator',

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14

Plural support: -'categories1' 'categories'

-'restorelink1' 'restorelink'

-'subcategorycount1' 'subcategorycount' -'categoryarticlecount1' 'categoryarticlecount'

'nbytes' 'ncategories' 'nlinks' 'nmembers' 'nrevisions' 'nviews'

Modified: 'administrators' 'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake) 'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)

Renamed: 'members' to 'nmembers' (see above)

Actually, "emailforlost" should be replaced with "prefs-help-realname" and "prefs-help-email" in the sign up screen (which is the only problem it's used, as far as I've checked), then should be deleted.

Niklas Laxström wrote:

Hello,

It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week, but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and renamed members to nmembers for consistency.

I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or removed are welcome.

Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs, Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!

I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three types of problems. First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed. Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash ('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just intended behaviour. Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.

Ignore list: 'sidebar', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'googlesearch', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'metadata-fields', 'catseparator',

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14

Plural support: -'categories1' 'categories'

-'restorelink1' 'restorelink'

-'subcategorycount1' 'subcategorycount' -'categoryarticlecount1' 'categoryarticlecount'

'nbytes' 'ncategories' 'nlinks' 'nmembers' 'nrevisions' 'nviews'

Modified: 'administrators' 'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake) 'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)

Renamed: 'members' to 'nmembers' (see above)

"The only problem" in my last message means "the only place".

Niklas Laxström wrote:

Hello,

It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week, but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and renamed members to nmembers for consistency.

I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or removed are welcome.

Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs, Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!

I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three types of problems. First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed. Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash ('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just intended behaviour. Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.

Ignore list: 'sidebar', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'googlesearch', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'metadata-fields', 'catseparator',

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14

Plural support: -'categories1' 'categories'

-'restorelink1' 'restorelink'

-'subcategorycount1' 'subcategorycount' -'categoryarticlecount1' 'categoryarticlecount'

'nbytes' 'ncategories' 'nlinks' 'nmembers' 'nrevisions' 'nviews'

Modified: 'administrators' 'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake) 'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)

Renamed: 'members' to 'nmembers' (see above)