Translating:Offline

This is a help page for users who want to work on translations offline.

In spec-tran>Special:Translate|Special:Translate you can export a message group to a .po/gettext file, and work on that offline. You can spec-imp-tran>Special:ImportTranslations|upload or import your translations if you have "offline translator rights" (you can proj-translator>Project:Translator|make a request for those after you have proven to be a reliable online translator). For first time submissions, please compress your gettext file and e-mail it to "translatewiki AT translatewiki DOT net" referencing your translatewiki.net user name. Your first submission will be imported by a staff member.

For other technical suggestions, warnings and notes about usage of the offline translation feature, please see mw-help-ext-tran>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Off-line_translation|the documentation.

Clicking a link below will give you a .po/gettext file download for your language as set in spec-pref>Special:Preferences|Special:Preferences. This file has a UTF-8 encoding.


 * [ MediaWiki - most often used core messages]
 * [ MediaWiki - all core messages]
 * [ Wikimedia extension messages]
 * [ MediaWiki - all extension messages]

The above links are tailored to MediaWiki. On spec-langstat>Special:LanguageStats you can go to any group, and select there "" then select "<tvar|task-export-as-po></>" to export to gettext.

Weblinks to additional resources

 * mw-help>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Off-line translation</>|Help:Extension:Translate/Off-line translation in MediaWiki.org
 * [<tvar|autotools>http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html</> Autotools Tutorial]
 * [<tvar|gettext>http://code.google.com/p/gettext-commons/</> Gettext Commons - Java gettext utilities]
 * [<tvar|po-filter>http://www.opentag.com/okapi/wiki/index.php?title=PO_Filter</> Okapi PO filter]