Another tip: We're preapring many changes to the API Help messages at the moment. Translating them now will probably mean that you'll have to deal with a lot of small changes later on[1]. Another reason why you may want to hold off on translating many API Help messages...

[1] The first 250 changes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/169534/3/includes/api/i18n/en.json



On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,

A little tip to translators at translatewiki.net:

I usually try to have the translation of several important message groups to my language at 100% or close to it. Among these groups is "Extensions used by Wikimedia".

In the recent weeks hundreds of new messages were added to this groups as part of the Apihelp localization project.[1] Apihelp is generally a nice thing all of which should be translated, but I found this overwhelming: Apihelp is only useful to developers, while some important and highly visible messages in projects like VisualEditor and Flow may get lost among the hundreds of new Apihelp strings.

So I wrote this little gadget in my user space:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Amire80/common.js

It adds a "Remove apihelp" link to the top personal bar near the Talk page link. Clicking that link hides all currently visible Apihelp messages in the translation view.

Feel free to copy it and to improve it. I just made it in a few minutes and it may have bugs.

Again: Please *do* translate Apihelp to your languages. Don't use the gadget to just ignore Apihelp completely - only to get through the time until it's all translated.

Hope it's useful :)

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-October/000071.html

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