Hi Chris, Could you add some more detailed description on the second paragraph, {{Int:Please-translate}}. {{Int:Feedback-thanks-title}}? Thanks in advance, --Takashi [[U:Takot]] 2016年7月11日(月) 23:36 Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

Beside the dot and space punctution in the middle, the rest is autotranslated (but using the **USER UI language** as set in his preferences, NOT the page language of the translation, so it is not really possible to adapt this punctuation). Check the result when viewing the generated page what gets inserted there (and look at it when you select another user language in the Universal Language selector). Note that the two "int:" messages are actually translated in translatewiki.net. In my opinion, this entry should not even be needed as the whole paragraph should be autotranslated in the UI language and should then not mix languages. the dot+space in the middle should also come from an UI "int:" resources, containing the correct punctuation sign(s) to use for ending sentences and the correct word separation. 2016-07-11 18:57 GMT+02:00 Takashi OTA <supertakot+translators(a)gmail.com>om>:

Hi Philippe, Sorry if I've tried to resolve this incorrectly. I think I might have caused confusion, by using the example links with the "?uselang=it/de" string added to the end. I did that purely to demonstrate that the strings were already translated. The standard page will indeed display those strings in French, as you note, if the user's UI language is set to French. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Wikipedia.org_updated_pa… Generally, I believe the purpose of including those strings in any message, is for the benefit of all the languages which do ''not'' get translated at mediawiki or meta. E.g. if there isn't a [foo-language] translation, but the message is delivered to the [foo-language] Village Pump, then local editors will at least see the "please translate" message in their own language, and thus they will be able to potentially find a local editor to translate the full message. One alternative general solution, might be to remove the {{Int:Please-translate}} and {{Int:Feedback-thanks-title}} strings from the translatable page, whilst translation is ongoing, and then simply add them back in before sending the message to any village pumps. Does that sound preferable to everyone, as a best practice for the future? Thanks for the suggestion about fixing the fullstop and space. Nick / Quiddity On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF