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Localisation consists not only from translating messages, but also from customizing everything from time formats to grammatical features like inflection.

Contents 1 Text 1.1 Interface messages 1.2 Extension messages 1.3 Other messages 2 Regional settings 3 Language features 4 Other variables

[edit] Text

[edit] Interface messages

Translating the interface messages is the most important thing to do. These can be translated using Special:Translate. In total there are about 1,700 messages.

[edit] Extension messages

Almost all extensions containing interface messages can be translated using Special:Translate. Betawiki support in-wiki translation for about 110 extensions (added functionality) for MediaWiki. Installed extensions are usually mentioned on Special:Version. In total the extensions contain about 1,550 messages that can be translated. A few extensions that are in active development or use can currently not be supported. We are trying to work with the authors of those extensions to get support in Betawiki.

[edit] Other messages

The following message groups can be translated using Special:Magic:

• Skin names – Monobook, Simple, ...
• Namespace names – User, Help_talk, Category, ...
• Magic words – {{SITENAME}}, {{NAMESPACE}}, {{#language:}}, ...
• Special page aliases – Recentchanges, Version, Statistics, Allpages, ...

[edit] Regional settings

• Time and date formats
• Number formats

[edit] Language features

• Fallback (that is, other language(s) to use when a translation is not available, instead of the default fallback which is English)
• Directionality (left to right or right to left)
• Link trail and Link prefix (those are letters that can be glued after/before the closing/opening brackets of a wiki link, but appear on the rendered as if part of the link (that is, clickable and in the same color), by default link trail is "a-z", you may want to add the accentuated or non-latin letters used by your language to the list)
• Plural formation
• Grammatical features (for example inflection)
• Capitalisation rules
• Variant conversion (between different orthographies, or scripts)

[edit] Other variables

• Bookstore list
• Type of emphasizing

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