Thanks Niklas for the reply.
Notwithstanding the subject line's snark, and despite the fact that
components of the problem have been solved for a long time, from a user's
perspective there hasn't been progress on the handicap (not being able to
translate from languages other than English on Meta) as a whole for years
now, which does run counter to our ethos of being multilingual and
encouraging contributions in all languages.
If Kunal succeeds, that would be great, but if he doesn't or it takes too
long to integrate his work, I would recommend prioritising this issue
somewhat higher and giving it the necessary resources at the WMF.
Best regards,
Bence
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Translate extension has supported for a long time
having any language
as the source language. There just has not been an interface in
MediaWiki to set the source language of a page.
The good news is that Kunal Grover, a GSoC student has created
Special:PageLanguage to do just that. [1] I expect it will be
available quite soon.
In the future, please use a subject line which does not sound like an
accusation.
-Niklas
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kunalgrover05/Progress_Report
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