Hi,
The topic of the heavy burden of having to translate MediaWiki user
interface at translatewiki was discussed several times.
In an attempt to address this problem somewhat, I wrote these proposals:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190047
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167762
Briefly, the suggestion is to split the extremely long list of translatable
messages in MediaWiki core and extensions into several groups, so that the
rarer and more technical messages won't confuse translators and make them
work more slowly or give up.
Actually, I already mentioned T167762, the proposal to split core into
several groups on this mailing list once, and it didn't generate a lot of
discussion ;)
In any case, if there are no significant objections, I plan to start
implementing this some time soon, and perhaps complete it by the time of
the Barcelona Hackathon in May.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore