Translating:MediaWiki

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MediaWiki is open source wiki software on which this site runs, and which can be translated here. Support for translating hundreds of MediaWiki extensions is also available.

Translators may add MediaWiki to their babel box or include {{User MediaWiki}} to add themselves to Category:MediaWiki translators.

Translation flow

You made some changes here? This is what happens then and how long it takes to take effect.

Wikimedia

Interface message changes should be reflected in projects within 48 hours. Everything else (magic words, special pages...) may take from days to months.

Wikia

Wikia usually uses customised stable revisions of the MediaWiki software. Consequently, the localisation of the MediaWiki core product, and standard MediaWiki extension from the main repository have a stable localisation state. Wikia extensions are updated more often. Wikia makes a weekly release of its code, including recent localisation updates of extensions from its own repository.

Everything else

New translations are shipped with each new MediaWiki release (1.x) and usually with maintenance releases too (1.x.y). There are only a few releases per year, and many sites do not update often. Since version 1.16 onwards it is possible to install the LocalisationUpdate extension, which speeds up the process a lot.

Translation notes

• For English glossary of MediaWiki specific terminology see Meta-wiki.
• Supports plural rules, grammar functions and gender - see translation guidelines.

Statistics

Statistics for current development version

These are statistics for the current alpha development version, i.e. 1.20alpha (r111092). Committed translations will appear to these statistics.

• Localisation statistics on MediaWiki.org - only for core messages, like the statistics below
• Group statistics here - for all message groups (most used, core, WMF-used extensions, all extensions)

Statistics for released versions

These statistics are only for viewing. Translations will not be committed to tags, but only to branches and the current trunk/alpha version of MediaWiki.

• 1.19 trunk - development version, not yet released
• 1.18
• 1.17
• 1.16
• 1.15
• 1.14

Other statistics and information

• SVN Index - the index of files on SVN containing the MediaWiki message translations
• Group statistics in time - gives an overview of the number of languages that pass translation milestones in time (discontinued October 2010).
• Mediawiki localisation in the 50 most spoken languages of the world.
• Main Wikimedia extensions explains how this message group is defined.
• Most often used messages in MediaWiki explains how this message group is defined.
• Translating:Commit MediaWiki core explain how staff does exports

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