Regarding https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235027: There's a simple workaround: once you're done translating, just go back and edit the existing translation, e.g. add a space to the translated title.

Hello, It seems that the Translate extension in its current state on MediaWiki.org is very buggy. As I’ve finished to translate the Phase 2 report of the Talk pages consultation [1], I see that some messages are replaced by others. Look there: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Translations:Talk_pages_consult… You can see in the history that I’ve translated ‘German Wikipedia’ to ‘Wikipédia en allemand’. But if you look at the content (click on the date or on the ‘Translations’ tab), you will see that it contains ‘[fr]’, which is the placeholder that I use to mark as translated the English translations of French quotations in the report. ‘[fr]’ uses only 4 bytes, but the history shows ‘22 bytes’ which corresponds to the case of ‘Wikipédia en allemand’ which is made of: 20 1-byte characters + 1 2-byte char = 20 × 1 + 1 × 2 = 22 bytes (The character ‘é’ uses 2 bytes when you use the common UTF-8 encoding.) Translators, take care not to work too much these days, or your good work might be corrupted — :(… A storm has touched our dear software which worked so well before. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_2_report/… Regards, -- Sylvain Chiron _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

Hello, Le 11/10/2019 à 16:29, Johan Jönsson a écrit : You can add then remove this space, to avoid modifying your text. This will enable the button and does the work too. It looks like it’s due to a desire to have less edits of translated versions of the pages, causing many translations (preferably by a single translator, so that the names are visible in the history) being published as a single edit, but it doesn’t work yet? Shouldn’t such an important thing be listed in the Tech News? Regards, -- Sylvain Chiron _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l