Hi everyone, Currently translation of messages outputted to the wiki's is done in source. This is quite tedious to maintain. A good step would be to move translations to http://www.translatewiki.org so it is much easier to get things translated. But how? We have several options. 1. Gettext: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_gettext Supported by translatewiki, build in support in python (http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html), but it doesn't seem to be really targeted on working on multiple languages the same time like we do in for example interwiki.py. 2. Big python dictionary: Easy to implement in pywikipedia but isn't really a standard so translatewiki needs to be modified. You can see a test in r8684 3. Properties files: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties These files are used in Java programs to store translations. Supported at translatewiki. We could probably parse these with something like http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html . Downside is that these files are not utf-8 encoded. 4. YAML : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML . Supported by translatewiki, need a lib to use it in pywikipedia. So what do you guys think? What should we do? Anyone willing to help implement this? We've talked about this several times. I hope we manage to implement something this time :-) Maarten