Thread:Translating talk:MediaWiki/Expanding translation support for Semantic MediaWiki

Heiya Siebrand,

triggered by the recent move to json-files for the system messages SMW wants to modernize the existing I18n system for most notably datatypes, namespaces and special properties, too. See the issue 286 - Localizer. This would also include to finally make these "messages" translatable via twn if possible. There has been some discussion on how to do it best and what to consider to achieve this best. There were basically two major points identified: 1) translation changes for datatype and special properties are always breaking changes, since they have an direct influence on the database backend of SMW if the former translations are not kept as aliases. 2) There are cases where there are messages have two aliases. Probably this is something to do via "Special:AdvancedTranslate". However a pull request 293 is also there to make the intended changes visible.

Since you are one of the experts on moving things into twn we will appreciate you feedback and pointers.

Cheers and thank you!