The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every
kind of text. It's used especially to translate software user interfaces and
to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.

== Copying ==
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html

== Installation ==
For a very very quick start add the following to LocalSettings.php:

 wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
 $wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate'] = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
 $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['pagetranslation'] = true;

More documentation is at
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Installation
 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Configuration

== Contributing ==
To translate this extension go to https://translatewiki.net and sign up.

To contribute features, fixes and code maintenance, please see
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Code_of_Conduct
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Getting_started_with_development

There is also a dedicated Translate and translatewiki.net development
environment, see
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/translatewiki/+/refs/heads/master/puppet/README

Known bugs and feature requests are collected and reported at
 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-translate/

You can chat with the developers at #wikimedia-language on Libera Chat IRC.
