A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Siebrand:
have a look at kde.userbase.org for a real-life example of a page translation implementation in a MediaWiki wiki[1]. A description of the features and process is available at translatewiki.net[2].
[1] http://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALanguageStats&code=nl [2] https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Page_translation_feature
what's keeping it [from being used] currently lies outside translatewiki.net's staff span of control (community voice and WMF resources).
For anyone who currently works on direct translations (of help messages, primary sources, &c), check out the kde example above.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
John, if you don't mind, can we move this thread to foundation-l?
sure.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:16 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
There is also interest in the English Wikisource community. The babel extension doesnt break anything, so I think en.ws would be happy to try it.
Yes. That would be grand.
I have started a formal vote in the existing discussion
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Babel...
English Wikisource is starting to focus on this for 2011, and knows it needs better software.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Translation
We are considering developing this functionality on top of the proofread page extension that we use.
That's great. Wikisource needs its own wiki newspaper to cover the cool things happening there :)
we used to have a nice newsletter. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News/Archives
and the multilingual http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News
Main namespace pages on all language Wikisources, rather than being separate language projects, would usually be exact translations of one another... so a future sort of Translate extension might be implemented on all of them.
Yea, the primary gap is the ability to translate between subdomains, whereas extension:translate currently only works on a single project. This gap might be reduced by enabling scary page transclusion between wikisource projects for only the 'Page' namespace...
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Babel is great and i'd love to see it enabled everywhere, but there's a little odd bug that should be fixed: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23034
I tried to fix it myself, but got lost in the language code tables.
Another i18n extension that has matured recently is Interlanguage: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607
Enabling it will: * stop the countless interwiki bot edits and clean up Recent Changes * allow resolving interlanguage links conflicts easily and efficiently * help clean this backlog: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_synchronization
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Samuel Klein wrote:
A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Requests for extension review should be listed here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue
If there isn't an associated bug to have the extension enabled on a specific project, family of projects, or all Wikimedia wikis, someone should file one and reference it on the "Review queue" page.
MZMcBride
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Requests for extension review should be listed here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue
If there isn't an associated bug to have the extension enabled on a specific project, family of projects, or all Wikimedia wikis, someone should file one and reference it on the "Review queue" page.
Thanks for pointing that out. I will do that shortly.
-- John Vandenberg
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